...Margot Badran 152  mn  Journal of Middle East women’s studies  10:2 Book Reviews mn Revolutionary Womanhood: Feminisms, Modernity, and the State in Nasser’s Egypt Laura Bier. New York: Stanford...

... SORAYA TREMAYNE  65 MODERNITY AND EARLY MARRIAGE IN IRAN: A VIEW FROM WITHIN Soraya Tremayne  he past few decades have witnessed important changes in the patterns of Tmarriage in the Middle East and North Africa...

...Kathryn Babayan Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity , Najmabadi Afsaneh . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2005 . Pp. xiv, 363 . ISBN 0-52024-262-9 . 106  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES 5:2...

... that emanate from such a vision requires the kind of historical understanding Ahmed offers us in this timely and engaging book. Working Out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870-1940 Wilson Chacko Jacob. Durham; London: Duke University Press, 2011...

...Alainna Liloia Abstract This article explores the relationship between gender and modern nation building in Qatar, with attention to how Qatari women negotiate the challenges of modern development and social change. The article analyzes Qatar’s strategic use of gendered nation-building initiatives...

...Ghada Mourad Abstract This article examines how the Moroccan Francophone writer Mohamed Leftah negotiates a decolonized modernity in his novel Le dernier combat du Captain Niʿmat (2011). This understanding of decolonization is based on Abdelkebir Khatibi’s pensée-autre , a mode of thinking...

...Sara Pursley The Age of the Efendiyya: Passages to Modernity in National-Colonial Egypt . Lucie Ryzova . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2014 . 304 pages. isbn 9780199681778. Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018 A welcome...

... the parliamentary and presidential elections in Egypt, the figure of the “modern” woman gained renewed political significance. By exploring Egyptian English-language women’s lifestyle magazines, the article illustrates how socioeconomically privileged, Cairo-based women crafted “modern” female bodies and engaged...

...Emine Yüksel emineyuksell@gmail.com 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...

... Doctors and Students”) . Al-Majallah al-Tibbiyyah al-Misriyyah 16 , no. 12 : 711 – 15 . Abugideiri Hibba . 2010 . Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt . London : Routledge . Allender Tim . 2016 . Learning Femininity in Colonial India, 1820–1932...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Susan MacDougall Modernizing Patriarchy: The Politics of Women’s Rights in Morocco . Elliott Katja Zvan . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2015 . 233 pages. isbn 9781477302446 Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 Despite...

...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 Samira Aghacy’s Writing...

... 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...

...Mary Ann Fay Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Egypt . Cuno Kenneth M. . Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press , 2015 . 305 pages. isbn 978081563392 Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016...

... and sectarian conflict in Lebanon, and the alliance between comprador capitalism and the police state in Egypt. I argue that the emergence of gender as an active crucible of crisis—as opposed to a mere allegory of crisis—in Arabic literature is specific to the late modern period during which the selected texts...

...Farha Ghannam The New Mamluks: Egyptian Society and Modern Feudalism , ( Middle East Studies beyond Dominant Paradigms ), Sonbol Amira El-Azhary . Syracuse : Syracuse University Press , 2000 . 292 pages. $ 49.95 /cloth $19.95 paper. Copyright © 2005 Association for Middle East...