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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 178–180.
Published: 01 March 2017
... in the Kurdish region. Now, soldiers were being killed live on TV by civilians who were hailed as heroes of democracy. The rift within the hegemonic relationship between masculinity, the military, the state, and the nation was deepening. A defamed soldier, who called on his wife and children to drop his family...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 292–313.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., Morocco, and Algeria. Analysis of Islamic jurisprudence and opinions, court decisions, and state laws since 1999 shows that the crisis of abandoned children combined with the biological truth revealed by DNA testing have helped produce a paradigm shift. Islamic legal opinions now argue for the need...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 56–85.
Published: 01 July 2007
...Nadia Yaqub This article examines the role of the wedding in three Palestinian movies, Wedding in Galilee, Rana’s Wedding , and Paradise Now . It describes how filmmakers Michel Khleifi and Hany Abu-Assad harness the power of the wedding to construct Palestinian selves (and especially gendered...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (2): 31–58.
Published: 01 July 2010
... of political relevance, according to the women I interviewed it is only in the last few decades that women have used their ma’atim for purposes other than religious and social. In the past, Bahraini Shi‘i women used this space to grieve the martyrdom of figures from Shi‘i sacred history. Now they have begun...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (1): 1–38.
Published: 01 March 2011
... with group members now living in Israel. The meeting of these voices called for a multidimensional examination of central themes including the ideal female body, its boundaries, and transgressions of those boundaries; mechanisms of control; and the complex relationships between honor and shame and between...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 87–108.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of Islamic dimensions overlooks significant shifts in state power from prohibition to production. I explore how the Islamic Republic of Iran, which thirty years ago considered women’s outdoor exercise a problem, or even un-Islamic, now promotes it as a solution to women’s health problems. Nazanin...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 74–101.
Published: 01 November 2009
... in the source of domestic labor, from Arab to non-Arab migrant workers, where patronage obligations were no longer required (or claimed). The paper provides anecdotal testimonies of prewar relations, identifying a continuing dependency, but now on quasi-contractual arrangements with Asian and African migrant...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 43–68.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Stanley Thangaraj Abstract There is a growing literature on gender and feminist theory in the Middle East now. However, there has been little work on Kurdish diasporas and gender in the United States. This article examines how US diasporic Kurdish performances of gender and narrations of gender...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (2): 219–238.
Published: 01 July 2024
... addresses this gap in the literature by focusing on the #MosqueMeToo movement. Using an intersectional lens, the article provides an overview of this movement from current literature as well as content analysis of a number of Twitter (now X) posts. It examines the potential, strength, and impact...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 240–241.
Published: 01 July 2015
... December 5, 2014 [email protected] Reem Abbas, journalist and member of NOW There is also a debate inside NOW regarding whether to register as a civil society organization. One group argues that this will give them more resources for work on women’s rights, while another...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (2): 261–265.
Published: 01 July 2024
... and Evans 2011 ), and I turn to mood as a tool for it. In my earlier work I analyzed political commitments as an affective lens that sticks, proposing the concept of “mood of commitment” (Gülçiçek 2022 ). I now want to reflect on a mood change from the uprising excitement to reluctance toward my...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 117–123.
Published: 01 March 2015
... a whole. Of course, the sense of violence the skin transmits creates an array of hidden narratives that precedes it. The skin is now marked, reduced to a number, static, and confined to these very narrow parameters in a rectangular frame. Whom did this skin belong to, where has it been, and why...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 126.
Published: 01 March 2013
..., Hammond hopes that the reader “who is unfamiliar with
women’s Arabic poetic legacy will now become acquainted with it, that
the reader who has dismissed the legacy as consequential will now re-
consider it, and that the reader who has actively engaged with that legacy
will now find...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 175–182.
Published: 01 November 2009
... women everywhere—but they
also contend with the fact that original sources prior to the 1928 adop-
tion of the Turkish reform alphabet, which replaced the Ottoman script
(in Arabic characters), are now indecipherable to all but specialists.
WOMEN’S ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES WORLDWIDE...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 96–107.
Published: 01 November 2005
... Rights
Watch and Physicians for Human Rights, now defi ned rape as a form of
torture. AI also took up the cause of women refugees by demanding that
governments provide interviewers trained to recognize the diffi culties
faced by women relating experiences that may include rape...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 479–482.
Published: 01 November 2017
... to ask, “Can the subaltern speak?” Now we must ask, “Can the subaltern live?” In Manus , the audience hears the actual words of their compatriots who fled Iran but could not gain access to the freedoms they had envisaged. By portraying the Iranians as the ones in need of compassion, the production...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 246–250.
Published: 01 July 2016
... of the archive to remote areas that our own resources could never reach. The archive now holds material located in Tehran, Qazvin, Yazd, Kurdistan, Isfahan, Azerbaijan, Mashhad, and several cities in the United States, Europe, Canada, and Australia and material made available to us from major archival...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 122–130.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., it combines sexual subordination and anxious virility. Crucially, the commandment seeks to achieve legitimation and hegemony in the form of the fetish. Enter the circus: Say you are a woman! 1 Lick the floor! 2 Open your mouth! 3 Get down on all fours! 4 Now, bark like a dog! 5 Stand...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 1–7.
Published: 01 November 2014
... support from the University of
California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Therefore, from 2006 to 2010, JMEWS
thrived at UCLA under the auspices of the Women’s Studies Program
(WSP, now the Department of Gender Studies), chaired by Christine
Littleton, the Center for the Study of Women, directed...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 472–475.
Published: 01 November 2017
... and among the mainstream, the Muslim woman with hijab has emerged as the most vulnerable of subjects. And this “true” vulnerability only reinforces the image of her “subject” standing in society. The Muslim woman is depicted and imagined as a defenseless, singular archetype with hijab. She now requires more...
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