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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 41–61.
Published: 01 March 2020
... for the explicit contrast it provides in terms of race. The country of focus is Iraq, an illustrative choice for several reasons. For example, the Iraqi Communist Party (ICP) was the largest in the Middle East while Jews still lived in Iraq, and although the number of Iraq’s Zionists was never statistically...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 338–342.
Published: 01 November 2018
... to the revolutionary party, knocking on a door that refuses to give; an opening is impossible. Even when he notes, despite miriam cooke’s notion of “commissioned criticism” in a state-controlled and manipulated public sphere, that docile bodies may be disciplined into revolt and resistance and not only submission...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 1–28.
Published: 01 July 2008
... Reproductive
Technology, and Third-Party
Donation in the
Islamic Republic of Iran
Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi, Marcia C. Inhorn,
Hajiieh Bibi Razeghi-Nasrabad, and Ghasem Toloo
ABSTRACT
Infertility...
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in Reimagining Royal Domesticity: Intimacy, Power, and Familial Relations in the Late Qajar Harem
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 July 2020
Figure 9. “Our women’s party at Anis al-Dawlah’s home.” Courtesy of Gulistan Palace Visual Document Center, Tehran, ID 2010-2-3.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 6–30.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Camron Michael Amin The author examines how the Women’s Party (Hizb-i Zanan) used globalization to signal its departure from the tendency of women’s organizations to prioritize national goals over feminist goals in Iran. In explicitly holding the Iranian government to emerging international...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 36–53.
Published: 01 November 2009
... become a site of conflict between the two main political rivals, Hamas and Fateh, and they also have implications for gender relations. Women are not passive observers of the conflict between the two parties and the new traditions and rituals these parties are inventing. Women are actively involved...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 245–263.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of these novels coincided with the emergence of an LGBTQ+ politics in Turkey but also with the rise to power of the Islamist Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party). Drawing on crime fiction theories, trans studies, and recent Turkish history, this essay draws out the significance...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 43–63.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Gözde Emen-Gökatalay Abstract This article traces Nene Hatun’s popularity and legacy for women’s image in Turkey. The rediscovery of Nene Hatun and the political construction of her public image during the rule of the Democratic Party (DP), as an icon of anticommunist Turkish mothers, not only maps...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 167–184.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Hande Eslen-Ziya; Nazlı Kazanoğlu Abstract This article attempts to show how government-supported women’s NGOs (GO-NGOs) in Turkey actively contribute to the construction of neoliberal, conservative, antigender discourses of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government. Since the second...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 209–231.
Published: 01 July 2023
...,” or “Egyptian women.” Second, literature explaining the dynamics of authoritarian durability has mainly focused on what is institutional , for instance, the army, legislature, and political parties. This article focuses on a single woman as part of the toolbox authoritarian leaders use to maintain power...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 47–68.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Senem Kaptan Abstract Despite being exempt from compulsory military service, women have been indispensable in their roles as mothers of conscripted soldiers in the conflict between the Turkish military and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Based on in-depth interviews conducted with twenty women...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 195–218.
Published: 01 July 2017
... how both governmental and civil society actors have discussed and framed reproductive policies primarily in reference to religion since the ascension of the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party; AKP), this article focuses on debates that took place in 2012 about abortion...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 8–34.
Published: 01 July 2006
... forward among all the parties to the alliance. Michaelle Browers is an assistant professor of political science at Wake Forest University. Her first book, Democracy and Civil Society in Arab Political Thought: Cross-cultural Possibilities , will be published by Syracuse University Press in 2006...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 86–114.
Published: 01 July 2006
... parties, and other public actors made important contributions that led to the reforms. Admittedly, the feminist movement is not the sole actor behind the new and spectacular legal reforms, but this movement acted as the major pooling force behind it. This force is attested in triggering unprecedented...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (1): 58–85.
Published: 01 March 2007
... the impact of these organizations on the events and politics unfolding in the region. We have also observed and documented the impact of homeland politics on these diaspora organizations, paying special attention to the gendered influence exerted by Kurdish political parties. The theoretical contributions...
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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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in A Delicate Balancing Act: Women’s Rights and US Military Intervention in the Arab World
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 November 2021
and appointed government positions, to join political parties, and to petition government officials. Figure 1. Jordan and fluctuations in women’s rights.
Note: We use Cingranelli and Richards’s CIRI Human Rights Dataset. A score of 0 indicates that women’s political rights were not guaranteed by law during
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 241–243.
Published: 01 July 2023
... from the book. The theories of the constitution-making process that the book presents provide significant references for students and researchers. Every chapter tries to demonstrate that the four assembly parties represent four blocs in Turkey’s divided society. However, the agencies in the book...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (2): 1–30.
Published: 01 July 2010
... questions. First,
why do Yemeni Islamist women engage in work within a gender-seg-
mented public? Second, what kind of transformative eff ect has the per-
ception of their superior performance within such a public had on the
relationship between men and women within the Islamist Islah Party...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 103–106.
Published: 01 July 2008
... BOOK REVIEWS 103
the defi ant attitude of opposition parties does raise the question as to
whether the politics of engagement has had much of an impact in facili-
tating negotiation between state and Islam, particularly when secularists
and Islamic actors cohabit the state...
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