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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 402–408.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Louise Cainkar; Janan Najeeb Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 In 2017–18 the Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition (MMWC) partnered with Marquette University sociologist Louise Cainkar to conduct research on the need for and best practices around...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 117–119.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Diego Garcia Rodriguez [email protected] Sex and Desire in Muslim Cultures: Beyond Norms and Transgression from the Abbasids to the Present Day Aymon Kreil , Lucia Sorbera , and Serena Tolino , eds. London : Tauris , 2021 264 pages. isbn 9781838604080...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (2): 219–238.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of the movement and explores how it provides Muslim women with an accessible way to share their lived experiences. Moreover, the article elucidates the current backlash and self-reflections in response to the movement. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by the Association for Middle East...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 81–86.
Published: 01 July 2008
...Azza Basarudin AZZA BASARUDIN  81 BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS  Tracing Our Research Trajectories: Th e Study of Gender in Muslim Societies Azza Basarudin, University of California...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 111–114.
Published: 01 July 2008
... and totalizing theories and conceptions have done a disservice to any modern understanding of Islamic cultures and particularly to the women of these cultures. Th is volume can help redress the situation and obstruct the path of facile and uninformed iterations of Islam and its cultures. Muslim...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 94–97.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Schirin Amir-Moazami The Production of the Muslim Woman: Negotiating Text, History, and Ideology , Zayzafoon Lamia Ben Youssef . Lanham : Lexington Books , 2005 . Pp. xii, 213 . ISBN 0-739-10962-6 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2009 94...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 1–45.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Lila Abu-Lughod Rather than arguing about whether “Muslim women” do or do not have rights, I suggest that we begin from the premise that the concept of, and the practices around, “Muslim women’s rights” have an active social life today that can and should be studied ethnographically. The kinds...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 137–140.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Chloe Safier American Muslim Women: Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah , Karim Jamillah . New York : New York University Press , 2009 . Pp. xi, 291 . ISBN 978-0-8147-4810-7 . Copyright © 2010 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2010...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 3–24.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Attiya Ahmad Abstract In recent years marriages among Muslims of different ethnonational backgrounds have developed in the Gulf region. While proponents of these “Muslim marriages” depict them as transnational alternatives to ethnonational forms of affinity and belonging, as I discuss...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 133–136.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Lynne Dahmen Women’s Writing and Muslim Societies: The Search for Dialogue, 1920 – Present , Gemie Sharif . Cardiff : University of Wales Press , 2013 . 194 pages. ISBN 100708325408 . Copyright © 2014 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2014...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 343–362.
Published: 01 November 2016
... with the other, this rupture of dominant ideologies opens up new ways of thinking about identity but may also end with those disruptions being suppressed and crushed. This article uses Layoun’s ideas to inform a close reading of two recent novels written in Arabic, both of which depict Muslim-Jewish amatory...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 251–257.
Published: 01 July 2016
... contributions to the continuing debate about Arab women and their affective engagement with Islam. The two overlapping themes in these publications are, first, the appeal and perspective of a post-Islamist political society in Muslim majority contexts, primarily using Egypt as an example, and, second, probing...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 163–166.
Published: 01 July 2014
..., “it is only at home that people are critical of how we dress.” Others cling to the habit wherever they are because they believe it is incumbent upon them as modest Muslim women. A vocal few claim they have no choice. Sexuality in Muslim Contexts: Restrictions...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 108–110.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Joan W. Scott This book is Abu-Lughod’s intervention, an anthropologist’s insistence that observation, understanding, and respect ought to replace a rush to the salvation of (the oversimplified category of) “Muslim women.” She wants to do away with deceptively simple (mis)representations...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 96–107.
Published: 01 November 2005
... is currently working on a history of women’s human rights movements in Muslim societies. Copyright © 2005 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2005 96  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 130–132.
Published: 01 November 2005
...Christine Fergus Muslim Women in the United Kingdom and Beyond: Experiences and Images , Jawad Haifaa Benn Tansin , eds., 2003 . Leiden, Boston : Brill . Pp.xxvi + 180 . $96.00 /cloth. Copyright © 2005 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2005 130  JOURNAL...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 105–107.
Published: 01 November 2006
...Rachel L. Kaplan On Shifting Ground: Muslim Women in the Global Era , Nouraie-Simone Fereshteh , ed. New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York , 2005 . Pp. 282. $18.95 paper. Copyright © 2006 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2006...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 112–113.
Published: 01 November 2006
...Zohreh Ghavamshahidi 112  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES Shattering the Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak Out Fawzia Afzal-Khan, ed. Massachusetts: Olive Branch Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 338. $20 paperback. Reviewed by Zohreh Ghavamshahidi...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 3–23.
Published: 01 March 2015
... were assigned, as mothers and wives, a special role in the AIU’s efforts: to help Jewish boys and men pursue commercial or professional careers in French-dominated society. The AIU schools set out to win Moroccan Jews away from despised Muslim gender and sexual norms by Europeanizing Jews’ marriage...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 119–120.
Published: 01 November 2008
...Rana Sharif Copyright © 2008 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2008 RANA SHARIF  119 BRIEF COMMUNICATION  Duke–UNC–JMEWS Conference: Marketing Muslim Women...