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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 75–102.
Published: 01 March 2010
...,” “Visual Culture of the Modern Middle East,” “Religion, Rhetoric, and Representation,” “Women in Modern Islamic Art,” “History of the Middle East,” and various courses on the history of art in the premodern and modern periods at Otis College, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 106–109.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Wilson Chacko Jacob For Better, For Worse: The Marriage Crisis that Made Modern Egypt , Kholoussy Hanan . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2010 . 188 pages. ISBN 978-0-8047-6960-0 . Copyright © 2011 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2011 106  mn  JOURNAL...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 139–142.
Published: 01 November 2013
...- searchers and others interested in legal, popular culture, and quotidian dynamics in the realms of marriage and divorce in contemporary Egypt. Burying the Beloved: Marriage, Realism, and Reform in Modern Iran Amy Motlagh. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 96–98.
Published: 01 March 2016
... signals the need for further research in the book’s closing line: “What will be the fate of the female suffering body after the ‘Arab Spring’?” (134). Similarly, the geographic scope of the book makes one wonder how students of disability studies, modern literature, narratology, and gender studies...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 152–155.
Published: 01 July 2006
...Eleanor Gao Being Modern in Iran , Adelkhah Fariba . New York : Columbia University Press , 1998 . 190 pgs. $19.50 . Copyright © 2006 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2006 152  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES and reshaped new definitions of womanhood...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (2): 242–244.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Gülriz Şen [email protected] Creating the Modern Iranian Woman: Popular Culture between Two Revolutions . Liora Hendelman-Baavur . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2021 . ix + 330 pages. isbn 9781108726931 . Copyright © 2024 by the Association for Middle East Women’s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 104–106.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Catherine Sameh Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran: Interior Revolutions of the Modern Era . Pamela Karimi . Abingdon : Routledge , 2013 . 258 pages. isbn 9780415781831. Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 In Domesticity...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 219–222.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Mehammed Amadeus Mack Disturbing Attachments: Genet, Modern Pederasty, and Queer History . Kadji Amin . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2017 . 272 pages. isbn 9780822368892. Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 The story of Jean...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 58–88.
Published: 01 November 2008
...Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi This article sketches a history of Iran’s early girls’ school movement and examines its origins, goals, curricular content, and relationship to the state. It revises the tendency in the existing scholarship on modern education and reform to credit the Pahlavi state...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 121–128.
Published: 01 November 2008
...Amina Jamal Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject , Mahmood Saba . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2004 . Pp. xvi, 233 . ISBN 9780691086958 . An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi‘i Lebanon , Deeb Lara . Princeton...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 422–424.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Ghenwa Hayek Writing Beirut: Mappings of the City in the Modern Arabic Novel . Aghacy Samira . Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2015 . 206 pages. isbn 9780748696246 Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 In many chapters, Writing...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 19–57.
Published: 01 November 2010
... Modern Egyptian Girl was no different from her sisters worldwide. She appeared in the postwar period and was associated with a variety of commodities. Depicted as white and Europeanized, her Egyptian incarnation coincided with the emergence of similar political iconography. The male elite desired...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 83–85.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Heather Rastovac-Akbarzadeh Gender and Dance in Modern Iran is an exceptionally well-researched contribution to the limited scholarship on Iranian dance. Meftahi draws from an extensive archive of primary sources, many of which are only available in Persian: periodicals, program notes, films...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 351–353.
Published: 01 November 2018
... an authoritative voice simply because she is an insider woman. Modern Woman in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia does not rely on a specific methodology, nor does it clarify its theoretical contributions to gender studies. For instance, the modern in the title is not explained. Indeed, Al-Sudairy considers...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 354–355.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Mona L. Russell Composing Egypt: Reading, Writing, and the Emergence of a Modern Nation, 1870–1930 . Hoda Yousef . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2016 . 264 pages. isbn 9780804797115. Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 101–103.
Published: 01 March 2019
... modernity” (172). Middle-class Beirutis worked to mark difference that reinforced or created a sense of cultural authenticity and identity. The introductory chapter, “Beirut, City of the Levant,” begins with three vignettes that foreground Abou-Hodeib’s thesis that the “home”—public speakers often...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 346–350.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Rania Jaber Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2020 In March 2018 the School of Architecture and Design at the Lebanese American University (LAU) hosted a one - day conference in Beirut titled “Modern Bodies: Dress, Nation, Empire, Sexuality, and Gender...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 121–124.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Leila Zonouzi Temporary Marriage in Iran: Gender and Body Politics in Modern Iranian Film and Literature . Claudia Yaghoobi . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . 298 pages. isbn 9781108848473 . Copyright © 2021 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 March 2022
... earlier forms of healing with modern scientific methods. Medical faculties were established in the Middle East throughout the nineteenth century: in Cairo and Istanbul (1827); in Beirut—the Syrian Protestant College (1867; SPC, later renamed AUB) and St. Joseph University (1883)—and in Damascus (1903...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 98–100.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Emine Yüksel [email protected] Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam: Bilateral Descent and the Legacy of Fatima . Alyssa Gabbay . London : Tauris , 2020 288 pages. isbn 9781838602314. Copyright © 2023 by the Association for Middle East Women’s...