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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 376–394.
Published: 01 November 2017
... . The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . El Shakry Omnia . 2008 . “ Peasants, Crime, and Tea in Interwar Egypt .” ISIM Review 21 : 44 – 45 . Shalabi Hilmi Ahmad . 1988 . Fusul fi Tarikh...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 347–349.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of respectability subsist in the margins of society in interwar Egypt. Focusing on the women’s movement to build the Third Jewish Temple in the Temple Mount/Haram ash-Sharif in Jerusalem, Rachel Feldman analyzes women’s strategies for making territory through an embodied politics that relies on whiteness...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 19–57.
Published: 01 November 2010
... shoes, hats, and fash-
ionable clothes (Modern Girl 2008b, 18). There was an abundance of
advertising for these products in interwar Egypt.4 This article focuses
mainly on soap and clothing because they existed as commodities in
the region prior to the emergence of Modern Girl. Nevertheless...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 223–225.
Published: 01 July 2019
... medical community supported it, and in semi-independent Egypt, where Egyptian doctors saw it as a national disgrace and viewed its abolition as an important step toward decolonization. Chapter 5 looks at abolition efforts in Lebanon and Egypt, focusing on the activities of French and British abolitionist...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 473–478.
Published: 01 November 2021
... turned to sex work at the time. The relocation of the greatest concentration of British forces in the interwar period provided lucrative prospects to the foreign female brothel keepers who settled there (Baron 2005 : 52; Biancani 2018 : 124; Carminati 2021 ). 2 Afifa’s migration to Egypt, her...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 31–55.
Published: 01 July 2007
... and
revealing of the complexities of gender politics. In a recent study of
men’s fashion in Egypt, W. C. Jacob looks at the contested meanings of
the tarbush in the interwar period and argues that it was “simultane-
ously a sign of the modern and the traditional, the national and the
foreign...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 466–472.
Published: 01 November 2021
... like her royal peers in Iran and Egypt, she spearheaded the development of educational institutions and charitable organizations (Paidar 1997 : 104). Women’s education in Afghanistan was, in fact, in part made possible in the interwar period by the transregional circulation of women. Indian...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 25–44.
Published: 01 March 2018
... Panic and the Discourses of Moral Regulation in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain .” Journal of the History of Sexuality 8 , no. 4 : 575 – 615 . al-Istiqlal . 1938 . Advertisement for the club al-Hilal, November 7 . Jacob Wilson Chacko . 2011 . Working Out Egypt...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 53–82.
Published: 01 March 2008
... at the construction of the Iraqi public sphere and the emergence of democratic discourses during the interwar period. Her publications include articles on the history of Arab Jews in Iraq, Iraqi history, and Arabic literature. With Israel Gershoni and Liat Kozma, she co-edited Sculpturing Culture in Egypt (1999...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 354–355.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Mona L. Russell Composing Egypt: Reading, Writing, and the Emergence of a Modern Nation, 1870–1930 . Hoda Yousef . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2016 . 264 pages. isbn 9780804797115. Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 221–223.
Published: 01 July 2018
... division of labor. While factory women became symbols of modern Egypt during the interwar period, the gendered stratification of job positions also modernized industrial inequality. Despite the obstacles, some poor women of al-Mahalla undermined state and familial patriarchal systems through economic...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 145–146.
Published: 01 March 2008
... history, and Arabic literature.
With Israel Gershoni and Liat Kozma, she co-edited Sculpturing Culture in
Egypt (1999,(1999, iinn Hebrew),Hebrew), whichwhich includesincludes translationstranslations ofof seminalseminal worksworks byby
Egyptian intellectuals. She is currently working on a book...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 387–407.
Published: 01 November 2022
...- and early twentieth-century Egypt and Iran (Baron 1994 , 2005; Hatem 2011 ; Rostam-Kolayi 2000 ; Zachs and Halevi 2015 ); such discourses often overlapped with feminist thought, either on its own or in relation to the larger nationalist movement (Abu-Lughod 1998 ; Badran 1988; Booth 1991 , 2001a...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 106–108.
Published: 01 July 2008
...Omnia El Shakry Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics , Baron Beth . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2005 . Pp. xv, 287 . ISBN 0520238575 . Copyright © 2008 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2008 106 JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 31–57.
Published: 01 November 2008
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2005 Barren Lands and Fecund Bodies: The Emergence of Population
Discourse in Interwar Egypt. International Journal of Middle East Studies
37 (3): 351–72.
Gilbar, Gad G.
1997 Population Dilemmas in the Middle East: Essays in Political Demography...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 March 2023
... over some of the tensions in the state’s plan to mobilize women as workers, housewives, and consumers. Origin of manufacture and quality of technology was another continuity in appliance advertising before and after 1956, when appliances manufactured in Egypt began to be more available. Prior to 1956...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and postcolonial world. The first women to receive formal biomedical education in the region were the hakima s in Egypt. These medical doctors were trained by Mehmet Ali Pasha’s chief physician, Antoine Barthelemy Clot (known as Clot Bey), from the early 1830s on, to replace what he believed were...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 492–498.
Published: 01 November 2021
... Publications . Baron Beth . 2005 . Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics . Berkeley : University of California Press . Bein Amit . 2017 . Kemalist Turkey and the Middle East: International Relations in the Interwar Period . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 185–208.
Published: 01 July 2023
... the publication of Qasim Amin’s “The Liberation of Women” in 1899, Arab intellectuals had been arguing that modernity had to include some form of women’s advancement (Ahmed 1992 : 144–68). In the mid-twentieth century Egypt’s socialist regime under Gamal Abdel Nasser promoted state feminism: it “liberated” women...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 31–52.
Published: 01 March 2008
...: Osmanlı’dan Türkiye’ye Beş Ermeni Feminist Yazar
1862–1933. Istanbul: Aras.
El Shakry, Omnia
2005 Barren Land and Fecund Bodies: The Emergence of Population
Discourse in Interwar Egypt. International Journal of Middle East Studies
37:2 (August...
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