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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 376–394.
Published: 01 November 2017
... not raise suspicion or require explanation. Some women took up home robbery as a profession, subverting assumptions that organized criminality was the purview and inclination of men. The evidence regarding nonviolent theft crimes in interwar Egypt indicates that gendered and classed standards...
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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
... in French and Arabic medical journals to analyze how the colonial encounter shaped differing stances on state-regulated brothels in North Africa, where the French-dominated medical community supported it, and in semi-independent Egypt, where Egyptian doctors saw it as a national disgrace and viewed its...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 473–478.
Published: 01 November 2021
... sweeping over Egypt’s cities and countryside alike (Heshmat 2020 : 13–15). Shortly thereafter she reached Ismailia, where other women also 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...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 31–55.
Published: 01 July 2007
... al-Rafi ‘i (Life of al-Rafi ‘i). Cairo: Maktaba al-Risala.
Jacob, Wilson Chacko
2004 Th e Turban, the Tarbush, and the Top Hat: Masculinity, Modernity,
and National Identity in Interwar Egypt. Al-Raida 21 (104/105): 23–37.
54 JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 466–472.
Published: 01 November 2021
... in Afghanistan, 1919–1929 . Costa Mesa, CA : Mazda . Paidar Parvin . 1997 . Women and the Political Process in Twentieth-Century Iran . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Shakry Omnia . 1998 . “ Schooled Mothers and Structured Play: Child Rearing in Turn-of-the-Century Egypt...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 25–44.
Published: 01 March 2018
... and Asia, including in Egypt and Iran, but structured by European colonialism and regional empires (Jacob 2011 , 1–26; Najmabadi 2005 , 1–11, 26–62). This section focuses on the mechanisms of this renegotiation in interwar Iraq: the educational system, youth movements, and the military, whose efforts...
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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 (2008) 4 (2): 106–108.
Published: 01 July 2008
... involved
in other politicized ideological movements in Turkey.
Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics
Beth Baron. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
Pp. xv, 287. ISBN 0520238575.
Reviewed by Omnia El Shakry, University...
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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 (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. laura.bier@ghsoc.gatech.edu Copyright © 2023 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2023 Egypt consumption gender household appliances In 1962 the daily newspaper...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Doctors and Students”) . Al-Majallah al-Tibbiyyah al-Misriyyah 16 , no. 12 : 711 – 15 . Abugideiri Hibba . 2010 . Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt . London : Routledge . Allender Tim . 2016 . Learning Femininity in Colonial India, 1820–1932...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 492–498.
Published: 01 November 2021
... . Badran Margot . 2009 . Feminism in Islam: Secular and Religious Convergences . Oxford : One World Publications . Baron Beth . 2005 . Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics . Berkeley : University of California Press . Bein Amit . 2017 . Kemalist Turkey...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 185–208.
Published: 01 July 2023
... . 1956 . Le Maroc: Bilan d’une colonization . Paris : Éditions Sociales . Baker Alison . 1998 . Voices of Resistance: Oral Histories of Moroccan Women . Albany : State University of New York Press . Baron Beth . 1995 . The Women’s Awakening in Egypt: Culture, Society...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 366–394.
Published: 01 November 2021
... not be as popular as the growing local industry (Vitalis 2000 ). Just as advertising for Hollywood was increasing and the concept of hybrid beauty was emerging in Egypt in the interwar period, the famous singer, dancer, entertainer, and casino operator Badia Masabni (1892–1974) helped launch the careers...
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