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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 285–289.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Hikmet Kocamaner kocamanerh@uncw.edu Working Out Desire: Women, Sport, and Self-Making in Istanbul . Sertaç Sehlikoğlu . Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press , 2021 . xvii + 295 pages. isbn 9780815636939 . Copyright © 2022 by the Association for Middle East Women’s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 181–202.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Claudia Liebelt Abstract Based on research in Istanbul in 2013–14, the article describes a changing urban geography of beauty, which has multiple repercussions on women’s spatialized notions of femininity, intimate bodily grooming, and aesthetics. Beauty salons in two neighborhoods typically placed...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 31–52.
Published: 01 March 2008
... especially on the Twelfth Congress of the International Alliance of Women (IAW) held in Istanbul in 1935. Despite the renown of the Women’s Union, it was forced to disband shortly after the Istanbul Congress. Drawing upon popular press accounts, official records of the Istanbul Congress, and correspondence...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 143–165.
Published: 01 July 2016
..., problematizes women’s ability to control their public sexualities. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2011 and 2012 in Istanbul, this article explores the everyday concerns of Istanbulite women who seek rahatlık (comfort) during exercise. The interviewees frequently used the word rahatlık when...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 175–182.
Published: 01 November 2009
... Center, Istanbul
Diane James, University of California, Los Angeles
Show me your archive and I will tell you who is in power.
(Gloria Wekker)
Keynote speaker Tilly Vriend of the International Information Center
and Archives for the Women’s Movement (IIAV...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 112–115.
Published: 01 July 2007
...Mügé Galin The Book and the Roses: Sufi Women, Visibility, and Zikir in Contemporary Istanbul , Raudvere Catharina . Sweden : Bjärnums Tryckeri AB , 2002 . Pp. 248. ISBN 9186884115 . 112 JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 242–245.
Published: 01 July 2018
... on the streets of Istanbul and watched with sorrow their hungry faces too proud to beg for money. I decided to film the human faces of this tragedy. The first documentary I directed on the Syrian crisis was about the schooling problems of refugee kids at the Turkish-Syrian border right after the war began...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 104–106.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Orkide Izci izciorkide@gmail.com Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul . Deniz Yonucu . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2022 222 pages. isbn 9781501762161. Copyright © 2023 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2023 Police...
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in Muslim Fashionistas in Contemporary Turkey: Devoted Mothers, Benevolent Philanthropists, and Leisure Enthusiasts
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 1. Designer dresses displayed for the charity auction, May 2013, Istanbul. © Merve Kütük-Kuriş.
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in Muslim Fashionistas in Contemporary Turkey: Devoted Mothers, Benevolent Philanthropists, and Leisure Enthusiasts
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 2. Online hijabi retailers market their brand, May 2013, Istanbul. © Merve Kütük-Kuriş.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 222–243.
Published: 01 July 2017
...). Istanbul : Kitapçı Arekel . (Akalın) Besim Ömer . 1888 . Sıhhatnüma-yı Aile yahud Baba, Ana, Çocuk (Health Book of a Family or Father, Mother and Child). Istanbul : Mahmud Bey Matbaası . (Akalın) Besim Ömer . 1907 . “ Mukaddime ” (“Preface”). In Emrâz-ı Zühreviyeden Tahaffuz...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 411–415.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Kristin V. Monroe Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shiʿite South Beirut . Deeb Lara and Harb Mona . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2013 . 304 pages. isbn 9780691153667. Gaining Freedoms: Claiming Space in Istanbul and Berlin...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 118–148.
Published: 01 November 2010
... globalization, dimensions of public space, and identity-formation through contemporary everyday Islamic and secular practices and ideologies in Turkey. She has been doing ethnographic fieldwork in Istanbul since 1996. Her primary research questions have examined competing and contested secular and Islamic...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 245–263.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Olivia Landry Abstract Hop-Çiki-Yaya Polisiyesi is a Turkish crime novel series by Mehmet Murat Somer that appeared between 2003 and 2004. The series is set in the trans world of Istanbul, and the hero/heroine is a gender-nonbinary sleuth. The present essay explores the paradox at the heart...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 395–422.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Figure 1. Designer dresses displayed for the charity auction, May 2013, Istanbul. © Merve Kütük-Kuriş. ...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 32–57.
Published: 01 July 2013
... the Allied occupation of Istanbul (1918–23). Both texts are manifestations of an emerging Turkish national master narrative. By highlighting the tensions between the first-person narratives of the novel, the memoir, and the emplottment of the national master narrative, this essay offers an analysis...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 354–375.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Nadje Al-Ali; Latif Tas Abstract Despite the recent outbreak of violence and conflict, peace continues to be high on the agenda of the Kurdish political movement and many progressive Turkish intellectuals and activists. Based on qualitative research we conducted in Diyarbakır, Istanbul, London...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 47–68.
Published: 01 March 2017
... in Istanbul whose sons were deployed to the conflict zone and returned home without any injuries, this article examines how the conflict has impacted the mothers’ perception of national service, of the Kurdish conflict, and of the “East.” I argue that the women start to partly question the obligation to serve...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 3–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
... in their storytelling art in Turkey, this article questions the equation between “raising one’s voice” and having agency. It investigates two concrete instances in 2012, in Istanbul and Van, where Kurdish women publicly raised their voices. It shows that public audibility does not necessarily translate into agency...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (1): 35–57.
Published: 01 March 2007
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Turkey by people from other cultures. The migrants started to be seen
as “kara kalabalıklar” (“the dark crowds” or “the dark masses as
hordes “invading,” rather than assimilating to, the “civilized” spaces of
a “world-class” city such as Istanbul (Ayata 2002; Bali 2000; 2002; Işık...
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