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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 127–130.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Attiya Ahmad Gridlock: Labor, Migration, and Human Trafficking in Dubai , Mahdavi Pardis . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2011 . 251 pages. ISBN 978-0-8047-7220-4 . Copyright © 2013 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2013...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 6–35.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Pardis Mahdavi; Christine Sargent This paper investigates interactions between issues of labor, gender, sexuality, migration, and statehood through the lens of Dubai’s unskilled foreign migrant workers. Using ethnographic research methods, including participant observation and in-depth interviews...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 326–347.
Published: 01 November 2021
... to Syrian workers. SLAS volunteers understood their efforts as mitigating the precarities imposed on Syrian workers by the global capitalist labor system. Theirs was both a women’s organization and a proletarian movement led by Syrian women. Drawing from SLAS records and the Syrian American press...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 28–53.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Marie Duboc For the past decade Egypt has been experiencing the largest wave of labor action since the 1950s with over two million Egyptians protesting in the workplace between 2004 and 2011. The centrality of gender in labor protests seemed obvious when in December 2006 the female workers...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 78–101.
Published: 01 July 2012
...Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud The paid labor force participation of women in Arab states has always been among the lowest in the world. The same is true for Palestinian Arab women who are citizens of Israel. In sharp contrast, the paid labor participation of Jewish women in Israel is among the highest...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 12–30.
Published: 01 November 2008
...A. Holly Shissler This paper discusses the views of Turkish journalist Sabiha Zekeriya Sertel (1895–1968) on prostitution and women’s participation in the paid labor force. By examining her ideas on these issues and on women’s legal rights as they appeared in her journal, Resimli Ay, the paper...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 71–101.
Published: 01 November 2006
... class, in the present work we examine this program’s gender implications. In addition to the role it played in the emergence of the ethno-working class, the program significantly contributed to the reproduction and reinforcement of a gender-based division of labor in Israeli society. This double-edge...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 109–124.
Published: 01 November 2014
... in the status of Arab women and attitudes toward their participation in the labor force are due not to changes in the social structure of Arab society but to economic structural constraints at the national level. Copyright © 2014 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2014 khaled abu asbah, muhammed...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 74–101.
Published: 01 November 2009
... in the source of domestic labor, from Arab to non-Arab migrant workers, where patronage obligations were no longer required (or claimed). The paper provides anecdotal testimonies of prewar relations, identifying a continuing dependency, but now on quasi-contractual arrangements with Asian and African migrant...
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Published: 01 November 2018
Figure 7. Fahmi Basrawi, in formal Arab dress wearing a black robe, interpreting the explanations of a US Aramco official to Crown Prince Saud during his tour of Aramco’s industrial training department and refinery in 1948. In front of the frame are unnamed laborers drawn from the surrounding
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 112–121.
Published: 01 March 2023
... by the globalization of agricultural production and commodity chains in combination with the increasing flexibilization of labor regimes. In this context, Soprofel has laid off hundreds of female agricultural workers without proper severance packages, in violation of Moroccan labor law. Soprofel specializes...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (1): 110–146.
Published: 01 March 2005
... 2001; Hakimian
2001).
My focus is on female labor, social policy, and the changing political
economy, with an emphasis on Iran (an example of an oil economy), Jordan
(a non-oil economy), and Tunisia (a mixed oil economy). Conceptually, I take
a feminist political economy...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 232–234.
Published: 01 July 2023
... history, Middle East women’s history, the sociology of gender, and methodology. Students will encounter an extensive literature that can encourage them to pursue one or another line of inquiry with respect to gender relations, labor, and capitalism in MENA. Kocabicak has read widely and well...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 108–110.
Published: 01 July 2012
... tobacco industry is an essential contribution to the historiography
of Lebanon, in particular to its labor, gender, colonial, and postcolonial
facets. Perhaps more importantly, Militant Women of a Fragile Nation
is one of the very few extant social histories in any language that incor...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 132–133.
Published: 01 March 2015
... August 21, 2014 [email protected] Sosyalist Feminist Kolektif The SFK tackles a wide range of issues, from women’s paid-unpaid labor to intimate citizenship. In Turkey women’s rights are under attack by the government of the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 56–88.
Published: 01 July 2011
... advocacy
through their fathers, husbands, or other kinship ties. Among them
were Shulamit Aloni, wife of Reuven Aloni, a long-time member of the
Labor Party establishment; Yael Dayan, Moshe Dayan’s daughter; and
the much younger Meirav Michaeli, niece of Mordechai Namir, one of
the Labor Party’s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 112–139.
Published: 01 July 2005
... status is problematic,
particularly given gender role expectations, which in turn lead to an asymmetri-
cal distribution of reproductive labor in SWANA (as well as elsewhere). A grow-
ing literature points out that paid employment for women is no panacea, ei-
ther for women...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 55–88.
Published: 01 July 2005
... this ethnographic context, illegal migrants’ eligibility for state-
subsidized, or even free, reproductive and infant health care thus presents a bit
of a puzzle. Efforts to resolve this puzzle raise a number of important questions
regarding the political economy of illegal labor migration...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 March 2023
... distanced from the labor that the appliances perform and sometimes from the appliances themselves. An ad for Sabrine washing machines, for example, features a giant appliance with a very small housewife in the foreground looking up at it ( fig. 2 ). Another shows the oversized, disembodied silhouette...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 110–112.
Published: 01 July 2012
... of Middle East women’s studies 8:2
that coincided with its further gendering as displaced, mostly female,
Shi‘a villagers replaced a declining Maronite workforce.
Chapter 5 lays bare the state’s own gender bias regarding women’s
“suitability for mechanized labor” (117...
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