... at achieving the aesthetic ideals of dramatic weight gain and “shining and whitening” of the skin. This paper offers a critical reading of the representation of the female body in postcards and travelogues, in descriptions written by members of the Tunisian Jewish community, and in interviews conducted...

...Rosemary Sayigh This paper examines representations of “self” embodied in the life histories of women members of a Palestinian refugee camp community in Lebanon. Stereotypes of “self” are inherently ambivalent (Guttman 1988) as sites of both subjection and resistance. This ambivalence is strongly...

... be concomitantly anchored in real practices, in perceptions of difference among their practices by members of Ghagar communities, and in external discourse. Egyptian media tend to project an image of the Ghagar as a society in which women are more powerful than men—which has a negative connotation. The article...

... with gender justice and gender equity. Relying on seven semistructured in-depth interviews with members of GO-NGOs and a review of primary and secondary documents, this article contends that the civil society established under the so-called New Turkey situates it in the construction of antigender...

...Soheila Alirezanejad As a microfinance project, an association of women in central Iran began to keep bees for honey in 2000. Initially they made money, which transformed some skeptical family members’ expectations, but, by 2004, most of the women had lost their bees and thus their source...

... difficulty measuring up to the standards of being mastura , a morally and sexually protected member of society. 31. MCR 1937, file 6773, case 3262; MCR 1938, file 6777, case 1808; MCR 1938, file 655, case 6775; MCR 1945, file 7792, case 662; MCR 1945, file 7792, case 1016; MCR 1945, file 7794, case 2833...

...Farrah Jafari Recent scholarly research on the Iranian transsexual raises significant issues about the position of Islam toward members of the transsexual community and about the challenges facing sexual lifestyles that are aberrant to heteronormative behavior in Iran. In 1967, the exiled Ayatollah...

... activity (being seen or getting caught by the Islamic morality police or family members) than the health risks of diseases such as HIV. Women’s conceptions of social risk, their vulnerability to HIV/STIs, and their access to testing and treatment centers are explored through triangulated fieldwork...

... between the Women’s Union and IAW members, this analysis underscores how deeply contested the question of women’s emancipation was, not only within urban elite society, but also among those in municipal and state office. It also provides insights into how actively Turkish feminists engaged questions...

... and sexual minorities as well as activists and faculty members. The most recent step taken in the state-led antigender turn was Turkey’s withdrawal from the Council of Europe’s Istanbul Convention Action by a precipitous presidential decree. Drawing on thirty-three interviews with gender studies scholars...

... world. It pioneered transnational Arab women’s groups that connect Arab women on all six continents, despite having the majority of its members in the United States. With its membership spanning the world, AWSA United’s activists, who felt restricted by cultural apathy and ideological...

... their understanding and practice of Islam. Most halaqa members are foreign resident women who are not employed in the wage labor market, and whose work centers on their households. The ethnonational composition of halaqa groups varies tremendously, largely reflecting the demographic composition of particular Gulf...

..., equality, and human rights. A second cohort was formed in April 2009 and led to the publication of AWC members’ stories (originally written in Arabic) in the AAAN’s first-ever book, Towards the Sun (AAAN 2018 ). Participants wrote inspiring stories in simple, beautiful language. As most...

... with these qualifications. As for the participants in the activities of l’association, the term “group” is more readily applicable as they are official members of a gov- ernment-sponsored advocacy campaign, having completed paperwork expressing their interest in participation in the campaign...

... Copyright © 2015 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2015 An independent group of women’s rights activists founded the Bidarzani Collective in Iran in 2012. The collective initially consisted of thirteen members who saw the urgent need to respond to a new anti–women’s rights...

... December 5, 2014 [email protected] Reem Abbas, journalist and member of NOW There is also a debate inside NOW regarding whether to register as a civil society organization. One group argues that this will give them more resources for work on women’s rights, while another...

... the twenty-second year of the SWG this month (1/1436 Hijri [November 2014]). The core activity is a seminar with a presentation or a paper on a topic chosen by a member. The seminar topics have been organized into annual programs and for a few years in the new millennium were structured around themes...

... with a population of three million people. I conducted one-on-one interviews in a room at the back of an Antalya bookstore with eleven members (six women, four men, and one self-identified transsexual) between twenty and twenty-seven years old in the summer of 2014, finding participants with the help of LGBT...

... An Islam of her Own: Reconsidering Religion and Secularism in Women’s Islamic Movements demonstrates that much remains to say, most of it leading to new insights about these movements and their members. Hafez focuses her study on Gamiyat al-Hilal, an Islamic women’s private voluntary...

...Oguz Alyanak 2. Women’s loges in mosques are usually boxed up behind a curtain or a wooden panel. In bigger mosques, women are allocated a separate room or upstairs space. Members of the Women in Mosques campaign point out that this space is hard to access, especially by elderly women. Women’s...