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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 103–106.
Published: 01 July 2008
...Roberta Micallef Rethinking Islam and Liberal Democracy: Islamist Women in Turkish Politics , Arat Yeşim . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2005 . Pp. x, 150 . ISBN 9780791464663 . Copyright © 2008 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2008...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (2): 1–30.
Published: 01 July 2010
... debate on women’s political participation through such segmented public activism has provided Islamist women with the political leverage to begin undermining segmentation, further expanding the range of opportunities for women’s activism. STACEY PHILBRICK YADAV...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 144–147.
Published: 01 July 2005
...Christian Pond Islamist Mobilization in Turkey: A Study in Vernacular Politics , White Jenny B. . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2002 . xii + 299 pp. including chapter notes, bibliography and index. $35.00 cloth, $22.50 paperback. Copyright © 2005 Association...
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in A Delicate Balancing Act: Women’s Rights and US Military Intervention in the Arab World
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 4. The negative effect of Islamist strength on women’s political rights in the Arab world increases as US troop deployments in the MENA region rise, 1980–2010.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 8–34.
Published: 01 July 2006
...Michaelle Browers A series of forums have put Arab nationalists and Islamists in dialogue and contributed to the construction of discursive frames that facilitate cooperation in mobilizing support and in confronting various issues of common concern. However, the “women question” presents...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 357–378.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Nadje Al-Ali; Mashuq Kurt Abstract This article explores the complex and intersectional identities and positionalities of Kurdish Islamist women activists in Turkey in the context of heightened violence and tensions linked to the ongoing Turkish-Kurdish conflict. While both female Islamist...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 423–448.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Figure 4. The negative effect of Islamist strength on women’s political rights in the Arab world increases as US troop deployments in the MENA region rise, 1980–2010. ...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (1): 6–34.
Published: 01 March 2007
... them numerous rights, required that they not only demand new rights but also develop a discourse different from that of the state. However, as Tunisian feminist discourse was becoming institutionalized (e.g. with the publication of the magazine Nissa ) in the face of a growing Islamist movement which...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 36–53.
Published: 01 November 2009
... in creating more space for themselves by resisting certain Islamist initiatives, polygyny in particular. Even as they demonstrate resistance and agency, however, the political context in which Islamist and nationalist group weddings occur is unfavorable to women, as both forms lead to more segregated gender...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 50–71.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Liina Mustonen Abstract This article looks at how specific gendered practices and ideas about female bodies were instrumentalized in the struggle for political authority during Egypt’s transitional period between 2011 and 2013. It argues that in the aftermath of the uprising, when Islamists won...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 130–133.
Published: 01 March 2013
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of Islamist and feminist mobilizations surrounding reformation of the
mudawana (family code) in Morocco, Between Feminism and Islam:
Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco enters the debate at precisely
this point. Eschewing constructions of feminism and Islam as inherently
antagonistic...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 350–353.
Published: 01 November 2015
... and 1993. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan founded the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi; AKP) in 2001 and led it until 2014. In 2002 party leaders, declaring it a conservative democratic party, announced that it was breaking from its classic Islamist roots. Erdoğan also claimed that he...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 251–257.
Published: 01 July 2016
... contributions to the continuing debate about Arab women and their affective engagement with Islam. The two overlapping themes in these publications are, first, the appeal and perspective of a post-Islamist political society in Muslim majority contexts, primarily using Egypt as an example, and, second, probing...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 193–201.
Published: 01 July 2020
... heightened violence, fragmentation, authoritarian political repression, and Islamist mobilization, lessons and analytic frames developed in the Palestinian context may carry increasingly relevant comparative utility. The challenges, contradictions, tensions, failures, and avenues for future openings...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 227–229.
Published: 01 July 2015
... compared with Tunisia. But even in Tunisia “the crowd” turned out to be divided and indeed polarized, as evinced by the intense debates in the constituent assembly around women’s rights and sharia and the formation of an electoral bloc to prevent another Islamist victory. My observation about the ephemeral...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 125–134.
Published: 01 March 2019
... , and Üstek-Spilda and Alyanak 2016 . 11. See the BBC News interview with members of the Women in Mosques Movement under BBC News Türkçe 2018 . References Aksoy Hürcan Aslı . 2015 . “ Invigorating Democracy in Turkey: The Agency of Organized Islamist Women .” Politics and Gender 11...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 100–103.
Published: 01 July 2008
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Reviewed by Marcie J. Patton, Fairfi eld University
Toward the end of the 1990s in Turkey, the historically embedded fric-
tion and uncompromising opposition between secularists and Islamists
showed signs of abatement partly due to the heavy-handed state sup-
pression of the Islamic voice...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (1): 29–52.
Published: 01 March 2005
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My study of gender and sexuality in Muslim northern Sudan under-
scores the coexistence of two transnational institutions: the Sudanese Com-
munist Party (SCP) and its afflliated Sudanese Women’s Union (SWU); and
the Islamist state as represented by the National Islamic Front (NIF) and its
past...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 166–168.
Published: 01 March 2022
... reactionary patriarchal forces of political Islam, or Islamism, advocating an Islamic state were rapidly advancing in Egypt and other Arab countries. Islamists were provoking women “to return to the veil.” (The practice had fallen away by the 1950s.) In the 1970s Islamists in Egypt mobilized reveiling...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 89–110.
Published: 01 March 2024
... ). The faculty members we talked to practice gender studies vis-à-vis hostile state discourses and institutions at the intersection of affective, social, institutional, and political fields at various costs. Their accounts shed light on the ways that conservative, Islamist, neoliberal, and authoritarian politics...
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