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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 60–80.
Published: 01 July 2008
...Sarah A. Kaiksow This paper explores imperial masculinity from the perspective of a British soldier who fought against the Dhofar revolution from 1968 to 1970 while serving in the British-led Army of the Sultan of Oman. Previous writings on masculinity in the context of empire have largely focused...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 23–52.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli; Marcia C. Inhorn Male infertility, which contributes to roughly 60–70% of infertility cases in the Middle East, is especially agonizing in this region, where fatherhood is crucial to achieving masculine adulthood and community standing. In this paper, we compare...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Masculinity</span> and Marginality: Palestinian Men’s Struggles with Infertility in Israel and Lebanon
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 252–254.
Published: 01 July 2018
..., and adultery. Sociocultural norms entitle men to even more privileges, including freer mobility and more autonomy in their premarital sexual lives, provided these sexual encounters are defined as masculine and heteronormative. However, men with nonnormative sexual orientations or practices, such as gays...
View articletitled, The Egyptian General Directorate for Protecting Public Morality: Purveyors and Guardians of Penetrating <span class="search-highlight">Masculinity</span>
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 216–218.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Katja Žvan Elliott Femininity, Masculinity, and Sexuality in Morocco and Hollywood: The Negated Sex . Osire Glacier . Cham : Palgrave Macmillan , 2017 . ix + 193 pages. isbn 9783319532851. Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Osire...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 119–122.
Published: 01 July 2012
...Nadia Guessous Working Out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870–1940 , Jacob Wilson Chacko . Durham; London : Duke University Press , 2011 . 440 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8223-4674-6 . Copyright © 2012 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies...
View articletitled, Working Out Egypt: Effendi <span class="search-highlight">Masculinity</span> and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870–1940 by Wilson Chacko Jacob
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 178–180.
Published: 01 March 2017
... privileged place in the hegemonic constructions of masculinity and national identity. On the coup night, low flying military jets terrorized urban centers and the air force targeted the parliament and progovernment security forces, while unarmed civilians confronted and were killed by military troops...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 42–62.
Published: 01 March 2015
... in Iraqi literary production revealed the limits of representation of the masculine imagination. Copyright © 2015 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2015 prostitution literature gender Like the modernist tradition in Europe, literary innovation in Iraq and the Arab world...
View articletitled, The Figure of the Prostitute, Tajdid , and <span class="search-highlight">Masculinity</span> in Anticolonial Literature of Iraq
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 258–260.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Sarah Irving Agency and Gender in Gaza: Masculinity, Femininity, and Family during the Second Intifada . Muhanna Aitemad . Farnham : Ashgate , 2013 . 222 pages. isbn 9781409454533 Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 As Nicola Pratt...
View articletitled, Agency and Gender in Gaza: <span class="search-highlight">Masculinity</span>, Femininity, and Family during the Second Intifada by Aitemad Muhanna
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 1–20.
Published: 01 November 2007
.... Reasons for this surgery are examined, including physician avarice, masculinity expectations within homosocially competitive fertility regimes, and husbands' desires to share the burden of reproductive suffering with beloved wives. It is argued that within the Middle East, men as well as women are heavily...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 36–70.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Paul Amar This article examines how everyday theories of masculinity and vernacular discourses of “masculinities in crisis” play crucial roles in misrecognizing, racializing, moralistically-depoliticizing, and class-displacing emergent social forces in the Middle East. Public discourses...
View articletitled, Middle East <span class="search-highlight">Masculinity</span> Studies: Discourses of “Men in Crisis,” Industries of Gender in Revolution
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 115–139.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Sune Haugbolle This article discusses how militiamen who fought in the Lebanese civil war (1975–1990) have been represented in Lebanese cultural production and how these militiamen relate to public discourse on masculinity and culpability in the postwar period. Through an analysis of interviews...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 450–452.
Published: 01 November 2016
... with masculinity have existed since the 1970s (Al-Saadawi 1973 ; Tarabishi 1997 ), Arabizing the term masculinity continues to pose challenges. Masculinity is traditionally translated as a singular noun rujula (manliness) to differentiate it from dhukura (maleness). According to the Dictionary...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 293–295.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Çimen Günay-Erkol The remaining five chapters do not have literature or cinema as their explicit focus; rather, they conduct a sociocultural and anthropological reading of masculinities. Matthew B. Parnell focuses on nineteenth-century Egyptian cartoons and discusses how masculinities serve...
View articletitled, Constructions of <span class="search-highlight">Masculinity</span> in the Middle East and North Africa: Literature, Film, and National Discourse
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 122–130.
Published: 01 March 2023
...—during the twentieth century. They serve as the primary textual evidence of a palpable imbroglio of sovereignty and masculinity in Egypt. Wherein, the power of the postcolonial state to confine and kill the subject à la Mbembe is, in fact, not enough to enact its legitimacy or to undermine the subject’s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 197–219.
Published: 01 July 2021
..., selected films, literature, and choreography, this essay argues that the discussed works dislodge dabke from its feminized association with authenticity, folk culture, and nationhood to instead represent dabke as a form of hegemonic masculinity that perpetuates sovereignty, patriarchy, and autocracy...
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View articletitled, The “Barbaric” Dabke : <span class="search-highlight">Masculinity</span>, Dance, and Autocracy in Contemporary Syrian Cultural Production
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 359–361.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Murat C. Yildiz Nurturing Masculinities: Men, Food, and Family in Contemporary Egypt . Nefissa Naguib . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2015 . 156 pages. isbn 9781477307106. Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018 The Egyptian man...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 117–120.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Khaled Al-Masri Masculine Identity in the Fiction of the Arab East since 1967 , Aghacy Samira . Syracuse : Syracuse University Press , 2009 . 232 pages. ISBN 978-0-8156-3237-5 . Copyright © 2011 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2011...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 131–133.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Annemarie van Geel A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics, and Religion in Saudi Arabia , Al-Rasheed Madawi . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . 333 pages. ISBN 978-0-521-12252-8 . Copyright © 2014 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2014...
View articletitled, A Most <span class="search-highlight">Masculine</span> State: Gender, Politics, and Religion in Saudi Arabia by Madawi Al-Rasheed
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Challenging Reified Masculinities: Men as Survivors of Politically Motivated Sexual Assault in Egypt
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 323–342.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Mariz Tadros Abstract This article examines incidents of politically motivated sexual violence against men in protest spaces at a distinct juncture in Egypt’s history, after the downfall of President Hosni Mubarak (2011–13). The article examines the reified conceptions of masculinities in relation...
View articletitled, Challenging Reified <span class="search-highlight">Masculinities</span>: Men as Survivors of Politically Motivated Sexual Assault in Egypt
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 288–290.
Published: 01 July 2016
... a “third space” that forms and transforms young men’s alternative sexual subject positions. My conversations with young men revealed that in this third space the male body comes to terms with a new form of masculinity and male sexual pleasure that destabilizes both heteronormativity and homosexuality. I...
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