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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
... GENDER STUDIES IS AWARDED TO
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
FOR
CONCEIVING CITIZENS:
WOMEN AND THE POLITICS OF
MOTHERHOOD IN IRAN
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onceiving Citizens: Women...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 374–378.
Published: 01 November 2018
... was empowering, instructive, and enjoyable. Contrary to the ruling power’s standardizing discourse, the exhibition underlined the fact that experiences of motherhood and womanhood take many forms and every woman has much to share. Arzu Arbak took the opportunity of the exhibition to realize a photography...
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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 (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 (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 (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. liatkozma...
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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
... performances of aspiring young female Muslim entrepreneurs in the Islamic fashion market. By focusing on their everyday practices of motherhood, charity, and leisure, the article has demonstrated that these actors dynamically face the challenge of mediating “Islamic” permissibility rules with bourgeois...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 363–381.
Published: 01 November 2016
... their lives in battle were common and created a sort of national literary genre. Yet Guber was unique in the way she occupied center stage in the books alongside her dead sons. Guber’s status as a paragon of national motherhood resulted from her never exposing a conflict between loyalty to national values...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 10815483.
Published: 30 October 2023
... with the aim of providing themselves a new direction in life. While literature produced by Arab women writers has received sustained 3 1 8 scholarly attention, little commentary exists on writers trajectories of self-making and the way these trajectories t within full lives de ned by marriage and motherhood...
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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
... narrative used to “cultivate a consciousness of traditional values and their practice in real life among the Turkish women” (KADEM 2013a ). A closer examination of the ideas shared in these meetings indicates a clear reproduction of the traditional discourses on motherhood, on the importance of family...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 103–123.
Published: 01 July 2020
..., survival of her children in politically volatile times and, in the end, reunification with a long-lost love. Both characters find deep meaning in motherhood yet experience it as painfully self-effacing at times. Both are also represented as desiring beings who long for intimacy, in opposition...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 343–347.
Published: 01 November 2018
.... These are women’s issues, for it is usually women who decide whether to pursue IVF, women’s bodies on which such technologies are applied, and women who become pregnant. Legal and cultural debates around reproductive technologies often reproduce gendered expectations regarding sexuality and motherhood...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 283–306.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Kutsal Bir Kariyerdir ” (“He Saw the Reactions and Raised the Bet: Motherhood Is a Sacred Career”). January 2 . www.evrensel.net/haber/101204/tepkileri-gordu-ve-artirdi-annelik-kutsal-bir-kariyerdir . Dobash R. E. , and Dobash R. P. 2015 . When Men Murder Women . New York : Oxford...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 47–68.
Published: 01 March 2017
... they mostly justify the modernizing mission of the military. Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2017 military service motherhood East Kurdish conflict space nationalism Turkey “I thought of military service the same way I thought of menopause. Just as it’s...
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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
... 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 she enacts, framing her suffering
through maternal compassion and her subsequent...
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