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Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 127–130.
Published: 01 March 2013
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Book Reviews
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Gridlock: Labor, Migration,
and Human Trafficking in Dubai
Pardis Mahdavi. Stanford: Stanford University Press...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 121–123.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Jasmin Darznik Passionate Uprisings: Iran’s Sexual Revolution , Mahdavi Pardis . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2009 . 336 pages. ISBN 978-0-8047-5857-4 . Copyright © 2011 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2011 BOOK...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 1–22.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Pardis Mahdavi Since the Iranian revolution of 1979, women have experienced increasingly marginalized status in the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI). Despite the fact that rates of HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) are rising in Iran, especially among heterosexual women, changing...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 107–109.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Emanuela Buscemi Crossing the Gulf: Love and Family in Migrant Lives . Pardis Mahdavi . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2016 . 216 pages. isbn 9780804798839. Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Pardis Mahdavi’s Crossing...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 129–131.
Published: 01 November 2011
... “Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Place and
Morality in Shi῾ite South Beirut,” funded by the Wenner Gren Founda-
tion and the American Council of Learned Societies.
Pardis Mahdavi is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Pomona
College. Her research interests include gendered labor...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 1–5.
Published: 01 November 2011
... given rise to new instrumentalities of the
security state; in this, his work shows once again the entanglement of
gender and sexuality in modern biopolitical definition. Pardis Mahdavi
and Christine Sargent draw on ethnographic research in the United
Arab Emirates to provide a critique of global...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 119–121.
Published: 01 November 2011
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Passionate Uprisings: Iran’s Sexual Revolution
Pardis Mahdavi. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009.
336 pages. ISBN 978-0-8047-5857-4.
Reviewed by Jasmin Darznik, Washington and Lee University
Pardis Mahdavi’s Passionate Uprisings: Iran’s Sexual Revolution offers...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 72–95.
Published: 01 March 2023
... of lived experience can expose the capitalist, colonialist, and Orientalist systems (Irving 2008 ; Puar 2007 ; Rastegar 2013 ; Shakhsari 2012 ) within which representations operate. Some research in the Iranian context (Afary 2009a , 2009b; Mahdavi 2007 , 2009 , 2012a , 2012b ) has engaged...
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Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 139–142.
Published: 01 July 2016
... received renewed scholarly attention in its relation to love, sentimentality, sexuality, gender, and erotics (Mahdavi 2009 ; Najmabadi 2005 ; Ozyegin 2015 ; Peirce 2010 ; Pursley 2012 ). This research has greatly contributed to understanding the role of distinctive historical and social processes...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 130–133.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Jessica Newman 130 mn Journal of Middle East women’s studies 9:1
as Mahdavi proposes? Do these constitute another set of discourses—
akin to trafficking discourses—that need to be scrutinized? Finally,
Mahdavi’s analysis of sex workers is predicated on a structure-agency...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 110–111.
Published: 01 July 2009
... and
reproductive tourism in the Arab world. She is the founding editor of
JMEWS and co-editor of the Berghahn Books Series on Fertility, Repro-
duction and Sexuality.
Pardis Mahdavi is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Pomona
College in Claremont, California. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociomedical...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 62–86.
Published: 01 November 2014
...-rich states of the Arab Gulf are only beginning to receive
attention, with work focusing primarily on transnational and migrant
communities in those countries (Gardner 2010, Longva 2001, Mahdavi
2011, Mantha et al. 2012, Vora 2013).
Moreover, works on the original “zones of theory” outlined...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 109–119.
Published: 01 November 2007
... protect them
instead of harassing and banning them.
The most problematic chapter in the whole collection is that of
Shirin Mahdavi, “Reflections in the Mirror—How Each Saw the Other:
Women in the Nineteenth Century,” in which she takes the narrative
character of historical writing as a license...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 6–30.
Published: 01 March 2008
...
studies (Najmabadi 1993a; Amin 2002; Chehabi 2003; Mahdavi 2003;
Rostam-Kolayi 2003) which, of necessity, have focused on the state’s role
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in advancing or undermining Iranian feminism, and viewed women’s
agency largely in that context. Here...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 238–259.
Published: 01 July 2022
... by an Iranian Woman: Feminist Orientalism and National Identity in Satrapi’s Persepolis and Persepolis 2 .” Journal of International Women’s Studies 21 , no. 1 : 89 – 105 . Mahdavi Pardis . 2009 . Passionate Uprisings: Iran’s Sexual Revolution . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 108–135.
Published: 01 November 2013
... controlled by the state and official texts specify
the dress and lifestyles national citizens are supposed to adopt, young
women’s practices question the regime, or the omnipresence of religion,
as Pardis Mahdavi (2009), Asef Bayat (2007b), and Shahram Khosravi
(2008) interpret about contemporary...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 1–21.
Published: 01 November 2006
... to teach what he called
jāmi‘ih-shināsi (sociology) at Tehran University’s Teachers’ College
and the philosophy department (Armiki 1999:39f13 Th e fi rst books
soon followed. In 1943, Sadiqi’s colleague Yahyā Mahdavi published
Jāmi‘ishināsi, yā ‘ilm al-ijtimā‘ (Sociology). Four...
