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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 72–76.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Stephen Sheehi The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability . Jasbir K. Puar Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2017 . 267 pages. isbn 978082269189 . Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2020 Jasbir K. Puar’s acclaimed book The Right...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 94–103.
Published: 01 March 2018
.../substantive-erasures_essays-on-academic-boycott-an . Puar Jasbir K. 2013c . “ Homonationalism as Assemblage: Viral Travels, Affective Sexualities .” Jindal Global Law Review 4 , no. 2 : 23 – 43 . Puar Jasbir K. 2015 . “ The Right to Maim: Disablement and Inhumanist Biopolitics...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 100–102.
Published: 01 March 2020
... proportions.” The first object the visitor sees is Torso , a block of alabaster claimed to have come from wartime excavations in Beirut. In fact, Fattal carved the stone in such a way that it might evoke both an ancient statue and part of a body maimed by an explosion. Unadorned and heavy, it provides...
FIGURES
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 260–284.
Published: 01 July 2022
... to Genderized Torture: The Urgent Need for a Conceptual Evolution .” Torture: Journal on Rehabilitation of Torture Victims and Prevention of Torture 28 , no. 3 . https://irct.org/assets/uploads/111179-Article%20Text-228204-1-11-20181214.pdf . Puar Jasbir K. 2017 . The Right to Maim: Debility...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 80–106.
Published: 01 July 2014
... in which female bombers ponder the
faces of civilians they are about to maim or kill. Part of the message
100 mn Journal of Middle East women’s studies 10:2
of the film seems to be that a revolution must outgrow its insurgents,
who, while essential in kindling resistance...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 42–62.
Published: 01 March 2015
... and disgorged their human contents into the streets. The beggars, blind, maimed, emaciated, sat cross-legged or lay recumbent under the arcaded sidewalks and stretched out long bony fingers, some of them chanting verses from the Koran about God’s wrath. White-shirted young men, hand in hand, three deep, four...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 115–139.
Published: 01 March 2012
..., by portraying their transformation, Lebanese directors often
seek to mock the inflated masculinity of teenager soldiers. However,
their ability to maim and kill at random is hardly a laughing matter, and
other films, like Randa Chahal Sabag’sCivilisées , contain more outright
hostile portrayals...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 32–57.
Published: 01 July 2013
... after the
historic Sultan Ahmet meeting in which Turks protested the Greek oc-
cupation of Izmir: “The bloody humiliation and bitter calamity imposed
on the Turkish nation found their personified emblem in this maimed
Ayesha” (16). She is not only an “emblem” of injustice done...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 80–107.
Published: 01 July 2013
... to be a suicide bomber or to fantasize about
maiming other women with acid. In the context of terrorism and the
debates over its definition, Talal Asad (2007) argues that the abjection of
certain forms of violence as terrorist (i.e., evil, illegitimate, anti-modern)
differentiates its discursive opposite...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 326–347.
Published: 01 November 2021
..., and lingerie (Guglielmo 2010 : 56–60; Moran 2002 ). In addition to these finished goods, however, the factories churned out excess labor, the unemployed human remainders of unregulated global capitalism. Some came to America only to be maimed by the looms; others worked long hours but nevertheless sank...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 261–285.
Published: 01 November 2019
.... Such a situating demands deconstruction of the process as it happens in a particular place and time. To understand and contest the violence of ISIS men who obeyed orders to kill, maim, and rape those whom their leaders declared enemy, we have to see where their actions fit over time. ISIS men do not stand...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 1–45.
Published: 01 March 2010
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Where is the global feminist campaign against killing such signifi -
cant numbers of (mostly Muslim) women? Or maiming them, trauma-
tizing them, killing their children, sisters, mothers, husbands, fathers,
and brothers? Code Pink may be the only US-based women’s group that
has focused on Gaza...
