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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (1): 33–64.
Published: 01 March 2006
... Network and the National Council of Arab Americans (NCA). Copyright © 2006 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2006 ZEINA ZAATARI 33
THE CULTURE OF MOTHERHOOD:
AN AVENUE FOR WOMEN’S CIVIL
PARTICIPATION IN SOUTH...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 136.
Published: 01 November 2013
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CONCEIVING CITIZENS:
WOMEN AND THE POLITICS OF
MOTHERHOOD IN IRAN
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onceiving Citizens: Women and the Politics of Motherhood in Iran by
CFiroozeh Kashani-Sabet examines...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 374–378.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Arzu Yayıntaş Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018 I curated with Güneş Terkol and Sevil Tunaboylu A Room of Our Own , an exhibition on motherhood and fertility at the Ark Kültür gallery in Istanbul between May 9 and June 4, 2017. 1 The exhibit...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 382–410.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Emine Rezzan Karaman Abstract This article analyzes the construction of motherhood as a form of political agency in Turkey with particular references to the Saturday Mothers and the Peace Mothers, respectively, the mothers of the disappeared and the mothers of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 1–28.
Published: 01 July 2008
... able to overcome their infertility through ARTs, not all women’s lives are improved by these technologies. The Iranian civil law emphasizes that family is a warm and placid institute founded upon the authority of the husband and the father. Motherhood and doing housework are the woman’s responsibility...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 45–67.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of independence and responsibility. Through its deployment, counselors create affective space for single mothers to think beyond pathologizing portrayals of single motherhood in Morocco. Counselors also disrupt the neoliberal focus on calculated, self-interested action by centering “the mother-child couple...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 43–63.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., the 1950s witnessed a change in the references to motherhood in the discourses of politicians and other public figures. Framing the family roles of women as a question of security, such discourses referred to mothers as the protectors of family values against communist threats, which assigned further...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 81–104.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and immigrant students. It examines students’ interactions with the school, beginning with their decision to apply for medical school and going through the interview process, the experience of student life, and their attempts to balance medical school with marriage and motherhood. [email protected]...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 21–44.
Published: 01 November 2007
...-biological motherhood as well as non-parenthood were all viable
options for a meaningful woman’s life (Ha’aretz, September 16, 1996).
Shalev continued this line of thought with parallel ideas regarding men’s
family roles, advocating the involved father who fully participates in his...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 395–422.
Published: 01 November 2021
... Studies 2021 motherhood charity leisure Islam Turkey Turkey’s Islamic fashion industry emerged in the early 1990s and rapidly expanded in the new millennium. It has long been the monopoly of devout Muslim businessmen (Gökarıksel and Secor 2010b ; Kılıçbay and Binark 2002 ; Navaro-Yashin...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 317–336.
Published: 01 November 2023
... projects in the continuation of their mission of motherhood. While my interlocutors have conflicting views on marriage, motherhood features highly in their self-image. Women writers were proud of having raised their children into respectable adults. In arguing for the continuity between motherhood...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 363–381.
Published: 01 November 2016
... (With the Sons). Tel Aviv : Massada . Harnick Raya . 1985 . “ Va’adat Hahakira Takum ” (“A Commission of Investigation Will Be Appointed”). Davar 5 , no. 5 : 7 – 8 . Helman Sara . 1999 . “ From Soldiering and Motherhood to Citizenship: A Study of Four Israeli Peace Protest Movements...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 377–382.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of their experience beyond expression. The tropes of political sacrifice remain inadequate in laying their loss to rest, for the acknowledgment of the complex feelings that arise in the nexus of motherhood and heroism does not necessarily contain the full spectrum of how this condition is in fact felt . A powerful...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 167–184.
Published: 01 July 2023
... reproduction of the traditional discourses on motherhood, on the importance of family life, and on women in the familial sphere: As a matter of fact, family, women, sex, intimacy . . . etc., many concepts, categories and structures today are subject to debate and destruction. . . . The age of marriage...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 103–123.
Published: 01 July 2020
... militancy, patriarchal legal codes, motherhood, desire and intimacy, and, in the case of Missing Soluch , women’s stake in class struggle—remain unresolved and as alive as ever. With Missing Soluch and My Share , both Dowlatabadi and Saniee ultimately wrote new kinds of stories for Persian...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 343–347.
Published: 01 November 2018
... to infertile women as “barren trees” (126). Motherhood is the main source of a woman’s belonging, adult gender identity, marital stability, family relations, and power. As Göknar writes, women “do not belong unless they have a child or until they have a son” (65). Göknar argues that a woman’s decision to seek...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 283–306.
Published: 01 November 2020
... on the grounds that she was trivializing “women’s function at home and in the family,” “making motherhood and housework insignificant,” and “making accusations against the state.” 13 Gülbahar interpreted this interruption as a “destined-to-fail” attempt to silence women and refused to leave the stage until...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 47–68.
Published: 01 March 2017
... the graver responsibility of imparting their love of the nation to their children, but more importantly, it seems, to their sons” (Parla 2001 , 73). In a public speech in 1932, Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey, declared motherhood “the biggest duty” that women should embrace for the “prosperity...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 125–128.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., as part of the cumulative effects of war and displacement. It serves as the potent testimony that unites Inhorn’s policy critique and the concrete policy recommendations she offers by way of conclusion. There is, however, a noticeable absence of the experience of motherhood in these war stories...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 80–107.
Published: 01 July 2013
...?
Sentimental terror narratives represent Middle Eastern women
who commit or support violence as worthy of readers’ sympathy using
gendered imagery that links them to the protection/production of life,
particularly motherhood. This convention draws the ethical boundary
between a woman and the violence...
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