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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 382–410.
Published: 01 November 2016
... domain as an expression of collective traumas and silenced pasts, contribute to peace building in Turkey? Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 motherhood performance strategic neutrality citizenship violence maternal peace politics of emotion Women...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 363–381.
Published: 01 November 2016
...’ mothers in Israeli public life changed since the 1982 Lebanon War? At the center of the discussion is David Grossman’s novel To the End of the Land (2008). I argue that the author posits “the flight from bad tidings” as both a maternal strategy and the author’s psychopoetic strategy. This article examines...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 395–415.
Published: 01 November 2017
... a messianic femininity that emphasizes maternal duties and women’s redemptive power in Judaism while challenging male religious authorities and religious law in other areas. Activists define themselves as guardians of domestic space and the House of God (the future Third Temple) and redeemers of the Jewish...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (1): 33–64.
Published: 01 March 2006
... of conflict and war, can be seen as
“abnormal times” in which transgressions may be tolerated for the good of all.
However, women in South Lebanon believe and practice motherhood beyond
the domestic during moments of “peace” as well.1
The Southern Lebanese women discussed...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 120–144.
Published: 01 November 2009
... paternal grandmother and
her maternal great-grandmother (her mother’s paternal grandmother)
were sisters. Like Tony, Samer owned his own apartment, one fl oor of
the four-story building that his parents had built for their three sons.
Samer’s older brother, however, had migrated...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 379–383.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., which began in December that year. The Palestinian struggle for justice, freedom, and peace has become my struggle, part of a common conscience. I have continued to work in solidarity organizations in Palestine and refugee camps in Lebanon, the last ten years in midwifery, which I consider practical...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 31–52.
Published: 01 March 2008
... of peace, disarmament, and Turkey’s role in geopolitics, challenging the view that women were best suited to contribute to social and family policies rather than foreign policy. Kathryn Libal is an anthropologist jointly appointed as Assistant Professor to the Department of Human Development...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 80–107.
Published: 01 July 2013
... use gendered, maternal imagery to produce a liberal stance on terrorism that combines sympathetic comprehension of the forces that foster violence with condemnation of the violence itself. The article uses Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa’s Madih al-Karahiya (In Praise of Hatred , 2006...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 179–198.
Published: 01 July 2019
... as a limited period of maternal custody across all personal status codes (Human Rights Watch 2015 ). Family law is located within religious law, a pattern seen elsewhere in the Middle East (Najjar 1988 ); as Joseph ( 2010 : 13) argues, it is “non-negotiable.” Moreover, Joseph ( 2000 : 21) theorizes...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 260–284.
Published: 01 July 2022
... the male torturer, “the old monster” (no. 38, 101) and the tortured female prisoner. The masculinized state imposes its wounding imprint on the maternal breast in acts of disfigurement and defilement, thereby compelling the breast to bear the weight of the state’s heavy-handed “right to maim” (Puar 2017...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 19–40.
Published: 01 March 2020
... their lives are constantly affected by “the political.” Ultimately, this show and the novel before it aim to provide an intimate national history of Egypt, one that traces the dramatic shifts by looking at the everyday changes of one multigenerational family. Major occurrences, such as Egypt’s peace treaty...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 6–30.
Published: 01 March 2008
... the ideas of peace to the world, prepare the ground
to send women representatives of Eastern countries to participate in
the Peace Conference, and secure their just right to benefi t from the
true excellence that is freedom and social liberty, consistent with their
maternal role.”2 Soon thereaft er...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 21–44.
Published: 01 November 2007
...
praised as such (Shuval 1992, 66).
The demographic interest was soon translated into an official pro-
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natalist policy.5 Shortly after the state of Israel was founded, it began to
distribute maternity benefits, soon following this up...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 8–34.
Published: 01 July 2006
... collaboration
depends on this common oppositional frame: “Should peace come about
in Palestine, the Arab nationalists and Islamists would not have much
in common.” Some of the most successful mobilization efforts coming
out of these conferences center around two main issues: opposition to
normalization...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 30–59.
Published: 01 July 2008
... been found to be incompatible with each other—so what are we to make of these overlapping and contradictory criticisms of the relatively new scholarly discipline of conflict resolution? Can community-based peace-building indeed be either gender-friendly or sensitive to culture only? Tracing Palestinian...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 161–178.
Published: 01 July 2015
...—a process of always living “between two worlds,” where “worlds,” I argue, transcends geographic implications. The mother’s influence, which marks the Imaginary order, also dominates the Symbolic order for Salbi, although the mother figure is eventually eclipsed by Saddam. This maternal symbolic power...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (1): 79–109.
Published: 01 March 2005
... Shweder and Robert Levine, eds. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. Pp. 137–157.
Ruddick, Sara
1989 Maternal Thinking: Towards a Politics of Peace. Boston: Beacon.
Sabbah, Fatna A.
1984 Women in the Muslim Unconscious. New York: Pergamon Press.
Samman, Ghada.
1997 Beirut...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 167–184.
Published: 01 July 2023
... men. These responsibilities assigned to women also constitute a profamily discourse: We need to protect the family structure for the sake of a good generation because we need a well-raised generation. I mean, for instance, in order to avoid the increase in violence, we need peaceful families...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 75–94.
Published: 01 March 2019
... not on the Western concept of individual women breaking a glass ceiling but on motherhood forming a blessed state in relation to one’s son, a maternal feminism that is not dismissive of women’s domestic labor. Herein motherhood takes on a level of religious iconography. Symbolic of Ramadan’s sense of sacrifice...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 10815525.
Published: 30 October 2023
... reproduction and mothering (Aç k 2002; Kutluata 2002). In 1995 and 1996, respectively, the Cumartesi Anneleri (Saturday Mothers) and the Bar Anneleri (Peace Mothers) were founded in Istanbul and Diyarbak r. Inspired by the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo in Argentina, the Saturday Mothers demanded the truth about...
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