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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 105–133.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and promote the image of a benevolent and responsible government in international health management. My use of medical mission and mission doctor partly follows how Algerians and Moroccans speak of the Chinese health program today: la mission médicale chinoise , a terminology borrowed by Chinese...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 36–58.
Published: 01 March 2022
... in the early twentieth century, at a time when missionaries around the globe were embracing a mission of social service (Marten 2020 ). Presbyterian missionaries in Iran, like Protestant missionaries elsewhere in the Middle East, undertook extensive educational and medical projects, which they viewed as a way...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and their place in the national middle class (e.g., Lo 2002 ; Patton 1996 ). The Middle East is no exception. Histories of the medical profession in the Middle East have addressed medical schools, study missions to Europe, and the production of male physicians. They have also studied these men’s employment...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 223–225.
Published: 01 July 2019
... the precolonial period that provides the reader with a sense of continuing trajectories during and after World War II. Tracing debates about prostitution during the interwar period, Kozma demonstrates how this pivotal issue served as an index measuring colonial progress and national civilizing missions...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 31–57.
Published: 01 November 2008
... not in polar opposition over family planning. Egyptian women activists, medical specialists, state officials, and American population experts formed alliances that crossed national boundaries and cut at cross purposes to promote their varied agendas. The main losers in the scramble to establish family planning...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 12–35.
Published: 01 March 2022
... within the colonial sphere on a professional mission for which they were trained, their letters indicate more apathy than compassion and focus merely on medical and hygienic objects of change. Even if good intentions were indeed part of nurses’ motivations, their efforts should be considered within...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 398–400.
Published: 01 November 2019
... midwifery throughout the 1920s and 1930s and the spread of imperial medical training. These photographs, according to Brown, were produced to document the larger imperial narrative of progress and the euphemistic “civilizing mission” in training midwives to provide clean medical services, in contrast...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 10815469.
Published: 30 October 2023
... of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM), believed that Protestant schools should produce native pastors for local Protestant communities and out t them with pious wives by teaching only the Arabic gospel (Fleischmann 2006: 271 72).4 The founders of the SPC, by contrast, responded...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 183–189.
Published: 01 November 2009
... militarism and humani-
tarianism. Jennifer Terry’s presentation, “Signifi cant Injury: War, Medi-
cine, and Empire,” employed Foucault’s theory of biopower to explore the
overlapping missions of military warfare and medical technology. Terry
elaborated on the concept of biopower as one in which...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 158–161.
Published: 01 March 2022
... own cultural heritage while being fully aware of the patriarchal elements within Arab culture and the Arabic language. Given similar experiences during the twentieth century, these Chinese intellectuals could identify with Nawal’s mission. Her combination of “pen and scalpel” reminds any common...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 123–124.
Published: 01 July 2012
... and opinion pieces in Arabic,
Hebrew, and English and has published four volumes of Arabic poetry
and literature. Since 2006 she has been frequently published in the
prestigious literature magazine al-Adab (Beirut). In 2005, she was com-
missioned to write original poetry for the Washington, DC...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (1): 144–148.
Published: 01 March 2006
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Studies, Queen Elizabeth House and University of Oxford. Her interest is
in the field of medical anthropology with emphasis on the anthropology
of reproduction in Iran.
Zeina Zaatari earned her PhD in cultural anthropology with a desig-
nated emphasis in feminist theory from the University...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 371–373.
Published: 01 November 2015
... region—or West Asia and North Africa. Sawt is an independent collective in the sense that it is not affiliated with any political party, movement, or other established feminist group. Sawt’s mission is to develop a collaborative creative feminist space that encompasses people of different ages...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 129–131.
Published: 01 November 2011
... Security’ States, Sexuality Politics and the End of Neoliberalism
(Duke University Press, 2011), Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture and
Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East with Diane Singerman
(American University in Cairo Press, 2006), New Racial Missions of Po...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 287–311.
Published: 01 July 2017
... it a topic unworthy of the law. Nevertheless, registered prostitutes were viewed as corporeal loci of moral and medical infection who instrumentalized their bodies and refused to efface their sexuality in public space. They were regulated at municipal levels and subjected to arbitrary policing, fines...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 105–108.
Published: 01 March 2009
...,” resonates with the civilizing mission she chronicles.
Th is reminds us that controlling women, or claiming to emancipate
them, still works in the propaganda wars that serve to justify various
imperial agendas.
Pioneers or Pawns?
Women Health Workers and the Politics...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 21–44.
Published: 01 November 2007
... relations and social transformation. Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli is a medical anthropologist in the Faculty of Welfare and Health Sciences at the University of Haifa, Israel. Her research interest is the domain of women’s health, with a focus on issues related to reproduction: new procreative...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 37–62.
Published: 01 March 2012
... and Reconciliation Commission 2006), the Commission
offered pecuniary remedies derived from both witness oral testimony
and individual medical examinations. Notable among the indemnities
were financial reparations to victims of specific violations, such as forc-
ible disappearance, arbitrary...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 31–49.
Published: 01 March 2016
... pre- and post-oil times (Alsharekh and Springborg 2008 ). The writers discussed in this article straddle the world of their parents and grandparents and the world where they can become writers, medical doctors, and university professors—careers that previously women could not have in a place still...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 25–46.
Published: 01 March 2017
... and gender are conegotiated in football in Turkey. In addition, this article critiques the mission the TFF ascribes to women fans, delineating them as naturally polite guardians of an imposed sense of fair play. I show that women fans have a complex relation with “hegemonic masculinity” whereby...
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