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... Studies 2005 1. This paper draws on a longer version commissioned by UNRISD for its Gender Policy Report of 2005. I wish to thank Shahra Razavi for her comments on the first draft of the paper. 110 ¤GH¤¤ JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES WOMEN’S ECONOMIC PARTICIPATION...

... 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...

...Fahd Ali Raza Copyright © 2007 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2007 BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS  99 BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS  Reasons for the Lack of Women’s Participation...

...Mathew Gagné This paper explores how the participation of men in Beirut within the exclusively gay-male dating web site GayRomeo.com is framed by identity politics and practices of national and ethnic membership, masculinity, and sexuality in post-civil war Beirut. Such intermingling...

...Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud The paid labor force participation of women in Arab states has always been among the lowest in the world. The same is true for Palestinian Arab women who are citizens of Israel. In sharp contrast, the paid labor participation of Jewish women in Israel is among the highest...

... are not taking place in the absence of women’s contribution and participation. Drawing on examples from different countries, I demonstrate how women are shaping, impacting, and redefining the public sphere by producing alternative discourses and images about womanhood, citizenship, and political participation...

... for participation in the workforce and higher education. The study, derived from fifteen qualitative interviews with Qatari women aged twenty-six to fifty-six, unearths certain trends in participant views on gender roles, modern development, and tradition. The participants express satisfaction with and a desire...

.... Restricting itself to politics given this standpoint, a study of Jewish women’s participation in the illegal Zionist and Communist movements of Iraq reveals that racializations, rather than a single racialization, occurred—a racial reality no other scholarship provides for Iraq’s Jewish community. Because...

... signifying elements of these positions into one unsettling figure. The article shows how Ermia’s case gathered political valence through the contentious transnational Iranian mediascape and the televised talent genre’s premise—representing “real,” “ordinary” contestants and fostering audience participation...

...Anita Fábos; Emily Haddad Feminist activist and scholar Sondra Hale has made significant contributions to Sudan studies and politics through her research and her participation in Sudanese women’s rights advocacy and other progressive political movements. An analysis of Hale’s professional record...

...Khaled Abu Asbah; Muhammed Abu Nasra; Khawla Abu-Baker This study examines gender perceptions and attitudes of Arab male and female teachers in Israel. This quantitative study includes 302 Arab Muslim male and female teachers in the Arab education system. The results show that participants believe...

... on anti-colonialism, as well as the need for personal and political independence. In analyzing film critique from the last forty-five years, from the original release in France to contemporary screenings, this article demonstrates how the critics’ views of female characters as participants in irregular...

... females aged 15–64 and 0.4% of non-Qatari females in the same age group. The study provides important indices and conclusions, e.g., a substantial percentage of the participants have experienced violence, with most violence occurring within the family, from family males such as brothers, fathers...

... involving participant observations, in-depth interviews, and focus groups with women, health providers, and policy makers in the IRI. Pardis Mahdavi is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Pomona College in Claremont, California. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociomedical Sciences and Anthropology...

... debate on women’s political participation through such segmented public activism has provided Islamist women with the political leverage to begin undermining segmentation, further expanding the range of opportunities for women’s activism. Stacey Philbrick Yadav is Assistant Professor...

...-level of the project strategy’s impact on the participants themselves. Stephanie Willman Bordat has served as director of Global Rights’ Morocco-based office since its creation in 2000 and, in 2003, designed and expanded it into a regional program. Prior to joining Global Rights, Bordat worked...

... boys (between ten and fourteen) who enlisted, the expectation that they work took precedence. Moreover, at least some of these boys were eager to participate in war-front masculine homosociality rather than remain in feminized domestic spaces. This study analyzes biographies, census data, newspaper...