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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 157–178.
Published: 01 July 2019
... for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 romantic love kinship intimacy I love you, but you’d better come up with convincing answers soon. . . . My mom and dad are growing tired.” 1 Although the interview was being taped, I wrote down Yasmine’s statement in my notebook. Yasmine and Imad...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 3–24.
Published: 01 March 2017
... argue that “Muslim marriages” constitute transnational forms that are not simply marked by the extension or diffusion of kinship networks, ethnonational forms, and religious piety movements across borders. They reveal how transnationalism constitutes a dynamic field in which kinship, ethnonationalism...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (1): 39–69.
Published: 01 March 2011
... of the life of a woman, a former leftist political prisoner, named Mahtab. Striving to unravel the pathos and aporias of Mahtab’s life, this paper ponders the limits of the laws of polity and of kinship, and the “limit of reflexivity” (a phrase introduced by Judith Butler) that may have led to her suicide...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 21–44.
Published: 01 November 2007
... of reproduc-
tion as a woman’s domain and connotes an image of the female body as
requiring repair.
On the transformative side, it has been claimed that the routiniza-
tion of ARTs undermines the taken-for-granted position of foundational
concepts like “kinship” or “nature...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 135–156.
Published: 01 July 2019
... homoerotic desire between women and the intimacies women share as a form of queer spectatorship and queer disidentification, above and against the heteronormative plot. Second, this essay invokes the concepts of queer time and space as they enable queer kinships. Queer time refers to how queer people’s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 143–146.
Published: 01 July 2006
... women
are prevalent across various classes, religions, and states. Although they
question the causes, they do not offer explanations. I would argue that
gender bias in the MENA could be explained in the context of kinship.
However, as the authors attempt to set the cultural context...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 132–135.
Published: 01 March 2008
... on domestic economies, kinship networks, gender
and generational dynamics, the volume’s contributors investigate how
families living under occupation cope with the burdens of severe eco-
nomic stress and physical insecurity, and, importantly, how their ca-
pacities to adapt get stretched...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 314–332.
Published: 01 November 2018
... resources and a form of voyeuristic entertainment. By baring others’ moral dilemmas to a transnational audience, this format of advice also offers cultural spectacles of kinship. Gretchen Pfeil ( 2007 ) coined this term when writing about media hoopla over topics like polygamy and child abuse in the United...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 69–71.
Published: 01 March 2020
... to the volume. Moreover, discussion of queerness and queer kinship structures was absent from these essays, perhaps because it may not fall into the definition of family. In both cases, the category of “Arab” and “family” may have worked against inclusion of literature that could tell us important ways...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 206–208.
Published: 01 July 2020
... such ordinary Jewish women fit into the social order of the tenth- to thirteenth-century Islamic eastern Mediterranean, both as women and as Jews, and how two institutions central to their social order—kinship and law—shaped their lives” (2). Her study contends that a girl’s or woman’s first marriage had...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 111–113.
Published: 01 March 2024
... technologies, such as assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) and hymenoplasty, and social media have impacted marriage, intimacy, hierarchical gender relations and roles, kinship, and the discourse of the ideal woman. Iran has the most progressive stance on ARTs in the region, and infertile couples engage...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 142–145.
Published: 01 November 2013
... development and
dissemination of ARTs is challenging and transforming reproduction
and notions of kinship in settings where Islam is the dominant religion.
This is a particularly important debate given that within Islam, sexu-
ality and reproduction are valued not only for individual...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 62–86.
Published: 01 November 2014
... and
Islam and New Kinship: Reproductive
New Bodies, New Selves...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 1–5.
Published: 01 November 2011
..., and critical theory, as well as abstract psychoanalysis, postcolonial critique, literary and political appropriations of psychoanalysis, colonial law and manipulations of kinship structures, postcolonial Islam, feminist, gender and queer theory, and fin-de-siècle culture. Al-Kassim is the author of On Pain...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 197–219.
Published: 01 July 2021
... in the social reproduction of kinship that occurs through weddings because they symbolize the social body that sanctions the integration of the bride and groom as a kinship unit into a given social community. Moreover, as Marie Kastrinou ( 2016 : 159) hypothesizes, the collective gathering of witnesses...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 120–144.
Published: 01 November 2009
... seemed to be
connected economically and emotionally. Th e concept of “transnational
families,” which was circulating as I was trying to make sense of my
diminishing fi eld site, appeared to refi gure a fi eld of socialities akin to
the kinship I was trying to capture.
Yet the experience...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (1): 79–109.
Published: 01 March 2005
... by relationality than by hi-
erarchy organized through what I have called patriarchal connectivity (Joseph
1994b)—the embedding of relationally constituted selves in gendered and
hierarchical aged relations animated by kinship idioms and morality.
Western political and psychological theories have...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 145–174.
Published: 01 November 2009
... anywhere from 50 to 600 members. Th e privileging of extended
kinship in Dearborn parallels dominant concepts of family in Lebanon.
First, as Suad Joseph’s research shows, the extended kin (not only the
household or the nuclear family) are inscribed in national institutions
in Lebanon...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 165–192.
Published: 01 July 2020
..., www.qajarwomen.org/en/items/1261A58.html (accessed November 9, 2017). My work contributes to the body of scholarly engagement with different forms of kinship arrangements in the history of the modern Middle East by examining the late Qajar harem, the largest polygamous institution of its time within...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 143–165.
Published: 01 July 2016
... . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Clarke Morgan . 2007 . “ The Modernity of Milk Kinship .” Social Anthropology 15 , no. 3 : 287 – 304 . Coss Richard G. 1974 . “ Reflections on the Evil Eye .” Human Behavior 3 , no. 10 : 16 – 22 . Durakbaşa Ayşe . 1988...
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