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Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Politics of Patriarchy in Iran by Minoo Moallem
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 113–116.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Elham Gheytanchi Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Politics of Patriarchy in Iran , Moallem Minoo . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2005 . Pp. ix, 269 . ISBN 0-520-24345-5 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s...
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Lingering in Girlhood: Dancing with Patriarchy in Jordan
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 63–79.
Published: 01 March 2015
... of girlhood. Copyright © 2015 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2015 dance youth Jordan sexuality patriarchy Wielding a sword, a woman enters the stage to join a group of men dancers. She is wearing a black silk cloak ( ʿabaya ) over a long dress ( thob) . Her face is covered...
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Modernizing Patriarchy: The Politics of Women’s Rights in Morocco by Katja Zvan Elliott
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 416–418.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Susan MacDougall Modernizing Patriarchy: The Politics of Women’s Rights in Morocco . Elliott Katja Zvan . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2015 . 233 pages. isbn 9781477302446 Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 Despite...
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Turkish-Islamic Feminism Confronts National Patriarchy: Halide Edib’s Divided Self
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 32–57.
Published: 01 July 2013
... (Routledge, 2013). Copyright © 2013 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2013 32 mn JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES 9:2
TURKISH-ISLAMIC FEMINISM
CONFRONTS NATIONAL PATRIARCHY
HALIDE EDIB’S DIVIDED SELF
Erdağ...
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The Political Economy of Patriarchy in the Global South
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 232–234.
Published: 01 July 2023
..., industrialization, and export strategies (chaps. 4–5), thus eliding the mechanisms by which domestic patriarchy shifted to public patriarchy. Still, I recommend the book highly. It is excellent for classroom use in upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses on feminist political economy, Turkish economic...
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The Saadawian Androgyny
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 71–86.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., like “identical twins” who develop from a single fertilized egg. It is culture/patriarchy that differentiated and hierarchized them, through an everlasting process of assigning and molding identities. This model of parallel and interdependent male-female relation, or what I call “the Saadawian...
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Immodest Modesty: Accommodating Dissent and the ‘Abaya-as-Fashion in the Arab Gulf States
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 46–74.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Noor Al-Qasimi This article examines how the phenomenon of the ‘abaya-as-fashion is accommodated by the hegemonic order of Islamic patriarchy in the region of the Arab Gulf states. The traditional ‘abaya, or body veil commonly worn by national women across the Arab Gulf, is juxtaposed against...
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Bargaining with the Devil: States and Intimate Life
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 107–134.
Published: 01 July 2014
... Kandiyoti’s influential article, “Bargaining with Patriarchy” ( Gender & Society, 1988), which I re-engage for analytical purposes. Frances S. Hasso is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Sociology, and Director of the Program in International Comparative Studies, at Duke University. She...
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Depicting Victims, Heroines, and Pawns in the Syrian Uprising
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 306–322.
Published: 01 November 2016
... in the media, this article draws on Mohja Kahf’s three categories, which typify how Muslim women, Arab women, or both are perceived by the Anglophone reading and viewing public: the first is victims; the second, escapees; and the third, pawns of patriarchy and male power. While this typology helps in examining...
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Dispersed Nationalism: War, Diaspora and Kurdish Women’s Organizing
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (1): 58–85.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Shahrzad Mojab; Rachel Gorman In this paper we provide an analysis of Kurdish women’s organizing in the diaspora, highlighting the tension between “homeland” and “host-land” nationalisms, patriarchy, and feminism. This is the first feminist-transnational study of the experience of Kurdish women...
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Interrogating the Constructions of Masculinist Protection and Militarism in the Syrian Constitution of 1973
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 48–74.
Published: 01 March 2019
... and women. While most feminist scholarship dealing with states formation in the Arab context attributes its gendered nature to dictatorship, patriarchy, and religion, there is no debate about the development of states and their relation to militarism and masculinism. This construction of militarized...
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The “Barbaric” Dabke : Masculinity, Dance, and Autocracy in Contemporary Syrian Cultural Production
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 197–219.
Published: 01 July 2021
..., selected films, literature, and choreography, this essay argues that the discussed works dislodge dabke from its feminized association with authenticity, folk culture, and nationhood to instead represent dabke as a form of hegemonic masculinity that perpetuates sovereignty, patriarchy, and autocracy...
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Femininity, Masculinity, and Sexuality in Morocco and Hollywood: The Negated Sex
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 216–218.
Published: 01 July 2019
... and children, since they cannot control anything else. Patriarchy and misogyny thus allow the regime to maintain its power and uphold the status quo. Glacier builds on and expands Fatima Mernissi’s unflinching critique of the Moroccan state, religion, and patriarchy. For instance, she asserts...
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The Age of the Efendiyya: Passages to Modernity in National-Colonial Egypt
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 356–358.
Published: 01 November 2018
... stronger if Ryzova had engaged with the extensive scholarship on modern formations of patriarchy in the region. She repeatedly presents “patriarchy” as inherently “traditional” and does not unpack statements such as “This [modern] education was not easily compatible with patriarchy because of the way...
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The Centrality of Gender to Understanding Turkish Politics
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 325–330.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Elif Akşit; Ezgi Saritaş Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks . White Jenny . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2014 . 261 pages. isbn 9780691161921 Gendered Identities: Criticizing Patriarchy in Turkey . Dönmez Rasim Özgür and Özmen Fazilet Ahu , eds...
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Madwomen Agents: Common Experiences in British Imperial, Postcolonial, and Bedouin Women’s Writing
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 453–454.
Published: 01 November 2016
... madwoman trope. The Victorian madwoman who is locked up is not so different from the postcolonial or Bedouin madwoman, who is confined not to the attic, but in a tent, a room, or a mental space that is the result of both colonialism and patriarchy. I address the relationships between madness and empire...
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Muslim Women and Social Activism: The #MosqueMeToo Movement
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (2): 219–238.
Published: 01 July 2024
... overlooked. The movement invites the public to challenge sexism, patriarchy, and other forms of oppression, such as rape culture in larger historical contexts of colonialism and violence against Indigenous women (Mendes and Ringrose 2019 ). It was initiated in 2007 by the US Black feminist activist Tarana...
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Postfeminism à la Turca : Postfeminism in New Turkish Romantic Comedies
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 177–196.
Published: 01 July 2021
... texts of culture (intertextuality). The contextuality of the study is designed by reading films through the current conservative patriarchy of Turkish politics. The intertextuality of the study is designed by reading the new romantic comedies through Yeşilçam melodramas. To establish the relationship...
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The Wavering Luck of Girls: Gender and Pre-Vocational Education in Israel
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 71–101.
Published: 01 November 2006
... through cultural biases and prejudices, patriarchy, we argue,
brought propitious results to these girls.
PRE-VOCATIONAL EDUCATION: BACKGROUND
TO THE RESEARCH STUDY
In 1955 (seven years aft er the inception of the state of Israel),
Israel’s educational...
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Learning Desire: Relational Pedagogies and the Desiring Female Subject in Lebanon
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (1): 79–109.
Published: 01 March 2005
... subjects both become animated by culturally
specific notions of subjectivity that embed desire within relational matrices.
And while work on Middle Eastern patriarchies abounds, one must turn to
literary (Mahfouz 1990; Altorki 1999; Al-Nowaihi 1999; Al-Shaykh 1986;
Barakat 1995; cooke...
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