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Do Muslim Women Need Saving? by Lila Abu-Lughod

Joan W. Scott
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 108–110.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-2832385
Published: 01 March 2015
...Joan W. Scott This book is Abu-Lughod’s intervention, an anthropologist’s insistence that observation, understanding, and respect ought to replace a rush to the salvation of (the oversimplified category of) “Muslim women.” She wants to do away with deceptively simple (mis)representations...
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The Active Social Life of “Muslim Women’s Rights”: A Plea for Ethnography, not Polemic, with Cases from Egypt and Palestine

Lila Abu-Lughod
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 1–45.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2010.6.1.1
Published: 01 March 2010
...Lila Abu-Lughod Rather than arguing about whether “Muslim women” do or do not have rights, I suggest that we begin from the premise that the concept of, and the practices around, “Muslim women’s rights” have an active social life today that can and should be studied ethnographically. The kinds...
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Caught in the Crosshairs: Confronting Compulsory Unveiling in Faiza Ambah’s Mariam

Nadine Sinno
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 1–18.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-8016462
Published: 01 March 2020
.... Mariam must also deal with her liberal father, who opposes the hijab because of his own internalization of Islamophobic narratives that have become widespread in France. Engaging with feminist and cultural studies by such scholars as Saba Mahmood, Mohja Kahf, Lila Abu-Lughod, and Sara Ahmed, this article...
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Saving the Modern Woman: Politics of Gender during Egypt’s Transitional Period

Liina Mustonen
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 50–71.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-10256155
Published: 01 March 2023
... in what Lila Abu-Lughod calls the “politics of modernity.” By delving into the world of Cairo’s wealthy and fashionable producers of lifestyle magazines, the article shows how specific bodily techniques and vocabularies of neoliberal feminism helped construct the idea of a “modern” woman. The “modern...
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Ethnographic and Literary Reflections on Miral Al-Tahawy’s The Tent

Caroline Seymour-Jorn
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 107–123.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-3728679
Published: 01 March 2017
... into her novel about Fatima, the young daughter of a Bedouin lord. In a carefully contextualized manner, she also incorporates Bedouin poems and stories into the narrative, along with references to popular belief in spirits and spirit possession. Anthropologists such as Lila Abu-Lughod and Steve Caton have...
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Agency versus Insurgency

Ellen McLarney
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 256–264.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-8949464
Published: 01 July 2021
... arguments developed by Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, Immanuel Kant, and Isaiah Berlin, as well as a rich body of anthropological material on women and gender in Middle East studies (Abu-Lughod 1990 ; Boddy 1989 ; Hale 1997 ). Her principal argument centers on an assertion of Muslim women’s agency...
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Modernizing Patriarchy: The Politics of Women’s Rights in Morocco by Katja Zvan Elliott

Susan MacDougall
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 416–418.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-3637598
Published: 01 November 2016
... normative assumptions about who wields power and who can exercise rights, and regional scholars focused on gender, including Lila Abu-Lughod ( 1990 , 2013 ), Fida Adely ( 2009 , 2012 ), and Saba Mahmood ( 2006 ), interrogate the assumptions that render some women “empowered” and others not. Katja Zvan...
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Women’s Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival

Sophia Goodfriend
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 296–298.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-9767940
Published: 01 July 2022
...Sophia Goodfriend References Abu-Lughod Lila . 2000 . Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society . Berkeley : University of California Press . Allan Diana . 2014 . Refugees of the Revolution . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Fraser Nancy...
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Love, Lebanese Style: Toward an Either/And Analytic Framework of Kinship

Sabiha Allouche
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 157–178.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7490953
Published: 01 July 2019
... the nation (Abu-Lughod 2008 ; Joubin 2013 , 2016 ), modernity (Abu-Lughod 1998 , 1999 ; Kreil 2016a ), and religion (Menin 2015 ). For instance, while examining the love tribulations of young Ghizlan in a midsize Moroccan town, Laura Menin ( 2015 ) captures the role of divine destiny in meeting...
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Chaos as a Political Strategy of Governance

Suad Joseph
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 486–488.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-4179188
Published: 01 November 2017
...Suad Joseph References Abu-Lughod Lila . 2013 . Do Muslim Really Women Need Saving? Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Finer Jon , and Malley Robert . 2017 . “ How Our Strategy against Terrorism Gave Us Trump .” New York Times , March 5 . Joseph...
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Between Nationalism and Feminism: The Eastern Women’s Congresses of 1930 and 1932

Charlotte Weber
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 83–106.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2008.4.1.83
Published: 01 March 2008
... for women that had accompanied the reorganization of economic and so- cial life in industrializing societies had been present in the Middle East CHARLOTTE WEBER  99 since at least the early 1900s (Baron 1994; Abu-Lughod 1998; Kandiyoti 1998; Najmabadi...
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Thinking Intentionality: Arab Women’s Subjectivity and its Discontents

Suad Joseph
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 1–25.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.8.2.1
Published: 01 July 2012
... and, more recently, with the idea that Arab women are dangerous and threatening suicide bombers and terrorists. As Lila Abu-Lughod (2002) eloquently outlined, there is also the rescue motif—Arab women as victims, oppressed, having too little agency and therefore needing rescue...
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Lingering in Girlhood: Dancing with Patriarchy in Jordan

Maral Tatios Yessayan
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 63–79.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-2832349
Published: 01 March 2015
... as respectable despite the culture of dishonor associated with women’s professional dance. In her ethnographic study of gender codes and conduct, poetry, and social structure in the Bedouin community of Awlad ʿAli in the western desert of Egypt, Lila Abu-Lughod ( 1986 , 10) argues that women participate...
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Decolonizing Transnational Feminism: Lessons from the Afghan and Iranian Feminist Uprisings of the Twenty-First Century

Wazhmah Osman, Narges Bajoghli
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 1–22.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-10961742
Published: 01 March 2024
... instances of feminist transnational collaboration and global mobilization for women’s rights, whereas #MyStealthyFreedom and the lack of coverage of the Afghan women’s right uprising since Taliban 2.0 fall into the paradigm of imperial feminism. References Abu-Lughod Lila . 2002 . “ Do Muslim...
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SWANA Feminist Futurities: Collective Reflections on the Making of Alternative Spaces for Imagined Futures

Khaoula Bengezi, Laila Mourad, Rawan Qaddoura
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 449–457.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-10815665
Published: 01 November 2023
... critically addressed by postcolonial and anticolonial (feminist) scholars (e.g., Abu-Lughod 2013 ; Mohanty 1988 ; Said 1978 ; Shihade and Shihade 2012 ). The function of overromanticized or oversimplified narratives of the 2011 revolutions is similar to that of the colonially constituted Orientalist...
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Roads Less Traveled in Middle East Anthropology—And New Paths in Gender Ethnography

Marcia C. Inhorn
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 62–86.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.10.3.62
Published: 01 November 2014
... half of all medical ethnographies devoted to gender and reproduction (see Table 1). However, it has not always been this way. In her seminal essay, “Zones of Theory in the Anthropology of the Arab World,” Lila Abu- Lughod (1989), the first winner of this Middle East Distinguished...
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Errata

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 129.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.7.2.129
Published: 01 July 2011
... and transformed by the lives of so many surviving women and men former prisoners. To them I remain indebted as long as I live. My heartfelt thanks go to Shahrzad Mojab for inviting me to submit my essay to this special issue. I am extremely grate- ful also to Lila Abu-Lughod, Stefania Pandolfo, Gabriele...
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Femicide and the Speaking State: Woman Killing and Woman (Re)making in Turkey

Sumru Atuk
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 283–306.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-8637409
Published: 01 November 2020
... of political speech in Turkey should be situated within the history of “remaking women” to sustain political power in the Middle East (cf. Abu-Lughod 1998 ). Third, I develop a theory of what I term the speaking state . My premise is that the state’s speech blurs the line between the symbolic...
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Gender and Nation Building in Qatar: Qatari Women Negotiate Modernity

Alainna Liloia
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 344–366.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7720683
Published: 01 November 2019
... in the Middle East and South Asia, examining how states and religious institutions have deployed gender representations in their constructions of envisioned nations (Abu-Lughod 1998a ; Joseph and Slyomovics 2001 ; Kandiyoti 1991 , 2001 ). Their scholarship draws attention to the implicit contradictions...
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Sonallah Ibrahim and Miriam Naoum’s Zaat : Deploying the Domestic in Representations of Egyptian Politics

Sara Salem
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 19–40.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-8016477
Published: 01 March 2020
... means through which identity in the Middle East is constructed, negotiated, and contested (Abu-Lughod 2008 ; Sakr 2001 , 2002 , 2007 ; Salamandra 1998 ). Its appeal intensifies during the holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims around the world fast from sunrise to sundown. One of the highlights...
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