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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 74–101.
Published: 01 November 2009
... as well from among Syrians, Palestinians, Kurds, Egyptians, and others in accordance with convenience and regional political circumstances. The long-term employment of Arab women in domestic service, with a primary focus on “live-in” maids, may be characterized as carrying a “burden” of obligation...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 1–10.
Published: 01 November 2009
... ctive kin. Maids are perceived as adopted daughters, in the case
of the child maids who were predominant up until the outbreak of the
Lebanese civil war (1975) and who were “raised like my own children,”
in the words of one employer. Th e sometimes contested role of the maid...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 376–394.
Published: 01 November 2017
... ” (“The Problem of Maids in Egypt”). Al-Siyasa al-Usbuʿiyya , January . Al-Dunya al-Musawara . 1930 . “ Jihad al-Bulis fi Mukafahat al-Mujrimin min al-Jins al-Latif ” (“The Police Struggle against Criminals of the Gentle Sex”). March 20 . Ener Mine . 1999 . “ Prohibitions on Begging...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 114–117.
Published: 01 July 2008
... such as Latifa, the young maid, and
Said, the grocer’s son. Th is theme has been explored in psychoanalytic
and political historical literature. Ghoussoub does not engage with any
of this material, but rather prefers to present a very lineal transformation
or metamorphosis that these key individuals...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 87–93.
Published: 01 March 2020
.... Rather, they are about migrant workers who immigrated to Lebanon to make a living and support their families in the countries they left behind. Working as live-in maids in Lebanese households, often with unlimited working hours and no breaks, they are charged with responsibilities that range from cooking...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 87–99.
Published: 01 July 2008
... majlis [rooms for formal entertaining, one for
men and one for women], a dining room Each bedroom has a bath,
then there are the maid’s quarters, and bathrooms for guests.” Newly-
weds oft en spend years living with parents or in-laws to save money.
Emirate males earning less than 10,000 dirhams...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 6–35.
Published: 01 November 2011
..., the director of the women’s shelter,
noted:
It’s really sad with the maids and mistresses. You see they are locked
up, and they can’t get out. They sometimes call, and then the police
come to the house, and who do you think answers the door? Their
master! And the master will say...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 307–325.
Published: 01 November 2020
... beyond the confines of her home” (Kazimi 2010 : 22). Like so many other women in the novel, she is superstitious and attributes all the events of her life to supernatural intervention. For example, her maid, rationalizing why her husband divorced her, claims to have seen a woman cast a spell on him...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 198–202.
Published: 01 November 2009
... Migration-Displacement
Nexus, ed. Khalid Koser and Susan Martin (forthcoming, Berghahn
Books); “Sexuality and the Servant: An Exploration of Arab Images of
the Sexuality of Domestic Maids in the Household,” in Sexuality in the
Arab World, ed. Samir Khalaf and John Gagnon (2006); and “Th...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (1): 33–64.
Published: 01 March 2006
... the
double burden where their husbands did not share household duties.
This relegated housework to a nonessential part of motherhood’s role,
especially for social classes able to afford a maid. One could then read
Hizbullah’s, including WAH’s, emphasis on the role of the mother as a
way to reclaim...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 55–88.
Published: 01 July 2005
...: The Global Politics of Reproduction. F.D. Ginsburg and R. Rapp, eds.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
Constable, Nicole
1997 Maid To Order: Filipina Domestic Helpers in Hong Kong. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 24–41.
Published: 01 March 2015
... was wealthy enough to keep many employees in and around the house: several cooks, a grocery shopper, a private driver, and other maids and helpers. As part of her dowry, Amin’s mother arranged for two middle-aged maids to help her daughter learn the “customs of conjugal life” (ʿAmu Khalili 2000 , 50...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 294–303.
Published: 01 July 2021
... this association assists have backgrounds as child maids ( petites bonnes ). 2 Others are employed as factory or agricultural workers in locations far from their familial support networks. 3 In all these cases, the women were fulfilling the role of provider ( qiwama ) for their impoverished parents...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 45–67.
Published: 01 March 2018
.... Still, for many beneficiaries, financial independence was simply not immediately attainable. The vast majority of beneficiaries entered low-paid work as maids in restaurants or private homes. During a visit with Layla, a single mother who had completed two years of WfW’s training programs in 2013, she...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 137–146.
Published: 01 March 2021
... the backdrop of events in 2011, is more pessimistic about the meaning of the revolution for the most economically and socially excluded Egyptians (see PPC n.d.-i). Nawara, the very likable protagonist, is a young working-class woman living in a low-income neighborhood of Cairo. She works as a maid...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 112–139.
Published: 01 July 2005
... on in
the context of SWANA is the fact that families in many countries now hire
non-citizen maids and nannies to provide cleaning, cooking, and childcare
services. Ray Jureidini and Nayla Moukarbel (2000 and 2001), who have stud-
ied this question within the context of Lebanon, draw attention...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 165–192.
Published: 01 July 2020
... mother, was his sighah Anis al-Dawlah, who entered the harem as a lower-class maid but became one of the most powerful figures during the shah’s reign. The Belgian Carla Serena ( 1883 : 74–76), who wrote about her travels to Iran in 1877–78 and was one of the few European women to do so, met Anis al...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., while working as an Employment Manager for the May Company,8
she defied the management to hire the first Black salesperson at a time
when Blacks were only hired as maids and the first Jewish person to
work in the Personnel Office at a time when anti-Semitism was palpable.
Sondra was told...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (3): 335–349.
Published: 01 November 2024
... according to the mandates of the Islamic Republic. Her eyes sparkle with contentment as she is surrounded by her husband; who is as old as her late father; his first wife, who is infertile and acts as a maid in her own house; his extended family, who are all jubilant over the birth of an heir; and her own...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 80–97.
Published: 01 March 2015
..., is resolutely chaste. What haunts both works is not so much suppressed alternative sexuality but rather the low-status ex-slave or maid. The ability of “the Mernissi women” to leave the house and go to school and of Amina to study and agitate for workers’ rights is dependent on the existence and labor of women...
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