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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 53–82.
Published: 01 March 2008
.... I demonstrate, however, that the discourse about women grew more Iraqi-centric in the 1940s and 50s. I also argue that the changes in the representations of women mirrored the radicalization of the Iraqi intelligentsia. While during the interwar period, the conversation about gender roles was mostly...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 376–394.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Hanan Hammad Abstract Court records, police reports, and security statistics indicate that theft was the most frequent crime committed by imprisoned Egyptian women in the interwar period, although scholarship has largely focused on their involvement in prostitution. Theft by women was typically...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 25–44.
Published: 01 March 2018
... in interwar Baghdad. The Ayyub stories, which render homoerotic masculine sexualities as commonplace and a positive aspect of city spaces, are thus distinguished from most Iraqi writings during this period. The stories stage homoeroticism and love between men as democratic critique and affirmation...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 223–225.
Published: 01 July 2019
... and eastern Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East are linked during the interwar period through prostitution. This meticulously researched study is an innovative contribution to recent trends in global and transnational history. By focusing on key nodes and interactions in the Mediterranean basin, Kozma...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 1–21.
Published: 01 November 2006
... the incredible velocity of cars, trains, and planes
but concluded that “the world. . . need(s) tranquility, welfare, and
comfort—not agitation and hardship!” (Anonymous 1940:184). All too
easily, speed could become literally maddening. In the interwar period,
one author identifi ed...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 466–472.
Published: 01 November 2021
...-Islamism and interwar Middle Eastern feminism forces us to look above and between national borders. To get a complete picture of feminist movements in the interwar period, even within their national contexts, scholars must go beyond the linguistic and spatial frames of the nation. This same thinking...
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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...
Journal Article
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 (2008) 4 (1): 145–146.
Published: 01 March 2008
.... at Princeton University in 2004. Her
dissertation, “Intellectuals in Monarchic Iraq, 1921–1941,” looks 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...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 463–465.
Published: 01 November 2021
... in exciting new directions. Questions that animate this roundtable include: In what ways did feminisms in the Middle East and North Africa transcend the nation and even the region during the interwar period, a time when the nation-state emerged as the default vehicle through which patriarchy was wielded...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 108–110.
Published: 01 July 2012
... Nation
is one of the very few extant social histories in any language that incor-
porates Lebanon’s “other” interwar period—between World War II and
the 1975 civil war—which has been otherwise relegated to the domains
of political history and political science. Abisaab’s refreshing...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 106–108.
Published: 01 July 2008
... activist active in
the interwar period. Baron demonstrates that despite having been ignored
in the wider literature on nationalism, these women were crucial to the
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nation-building project. “Nationalist politics must be conceived broadly...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 387–407.
Published: 01 November 2022
... citizens for its improvement. This analysis provides a model for reexamining the relationship between the domestic and the national in the interwar women’s press. johannalpeterson@gmail.com Copyright © 2022 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2022 women interwar period press...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 492–498.
Published: 01 November 2021
... and the Middle East: International Relations in the Interwar Period . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Bloch Marc . 2015 . “ A Contribution towards a Comparative History of European Societies .” In Land and Work in Mediaeval Europe: Selected Papers , translated by Anderson J. E. , 44...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 19–57.
Published: 01 November 2010
..., Australia,
India, China, Japan, and South Africa, emerged in the interwar period.
She was a “glocal” figure meant to whet the consuming appetites of elite
and upper-middle-class women.1 She shared the Modern Girl’s essential
features of bobbed hair, smiling face, painted lips...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 March 2023
... the turbulent interwar period. These measures culminated in the declaration of Arab socialism as the official state ideology in 1961, ushering in a period characterized both by centralized economic planning and by social engineering. The centerpiece of Egyptian planning was an extensive import-substitution...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 24–47.
Published: 01 March 2019
... like this. This is what I am calling the nostalgic project. Zofia stresses the continuing impact of her upbringing, such that even after decades in Israel she simply cannot fathom Arab violence. The Europe Zofia references is that of the home, during the interwar period, not the Europe...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 326–347.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of care for the Syrian working poor in general, and women workers in particular, that guided SLAS relief work through the interwar period. Though they helped virtually any immigrant who requested it, the SLAS mostly targeted its relief projects at young women and men working in New England textile...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 12–35.
Published: 01 March 2022
... on the long nineteenth century or on periods of decolonization, the existing scholarship leaves colonial nursing in the Middle East and interwar Palestine altogether unexplored. Finally, most studies on nurses in Mandate Palestine have focused on Jewish nurses and their work within the independent Jewish...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 31–55.
Published: 01 July 2007
... in the interwar period and argues that it was “simultane-
ously a sign of the modern and the traditional, the national and the
foreign, the masculine and the eff eminate” (2004, 24). His work sheds
light on the dynamic exchanges that took place between men on new
defi nitions of masculinity...
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