1-20 of 212

Search Results for perception

Save search
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
Close Modal
Sort by
Journal Article

Gender Perceptions of Male and Female Teachers in the Arab Education System in Israel

Khaled Abu Asbah, Muhammed Abu Nasra, Khawla Abu-Baker
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 109–124.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.10.3.109
Published: 01 November 2014
...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...
View articletitled, Gender <span class="search-highlight">Perceptions</span> of Male and Female Teachers in the Arab Education System in Israel View PDF for article titled, Gender <span class="search-highlight">Perceptions</span> of Male and Female Teachers in the Arab Education System in Israel
Journal Article

Gender Relations in Racialized Ghagar Communities of Egypt: Between Women Power and Layered Oppressions

Alexandra Parrs
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 264–282.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-8637395
Published: 01 November 2020
... be concomitantly anchored in real practices, in perceptions of difference among their practices by members of Ghagar communities, and in external discourse. Egyptian media tend to project an image of the Ghagar as a society in which women are more powerful than men—which has a negative connotation. The article...
View articletitled, Gender Relations in Racialized Ghagar Communities of Egypt: Between Women Power and Layered Oppressions View PDF for article titled, Gender Relations in Racialized Ghagar Communities of Egypt: Between Women Power and Layered Oppressions
Journal Article

Interrogating the Constructions of Masculinist Protection and Militarism in the Syrian Constitution of 1973

Rahaf Aldoughli
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 48–74.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7273706
Published: 01 March 2019
... rights become challenged by the state’s paternalistic perceptions. Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 militarism masculinist protection women Syria constitutions Amid the violence that has spread across Syria since 2011, questions about how women...
View articletitled, Interrogating the Constructions of Masculinist Protection and Militarism in the Syrian Constitution of 1973 View PDF for article titled, Interrogating the Constructions of Masculinist Protection and Militarism in the Syrian Constitution of 1973
Journal Article

Gendering Landscapes of War Through the Narratives of Soldiers’ Mothers: Military Service and the Kurdish Conflict in Turkey

Senem Kaptan
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 47–68.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-3728635
Published: 01 March 2017
... in Istanbul whose sons were deployed to the conflict zone and returned home without any injuries, this article examines how the conflict has impacted the mothers’ perception of national service, of the Kurdish conflict, and of the “East.” I argue that the women start to partly question the obligation to serve...
View articletitled, Gendering Landscapes of War Through the Narratives of Soldiers’ Mothers: Military Service and the Kurdish Conflict in Turkey View PDF for article titled, Gendering Landscapes of War Through the Narratives of Soldiers’ Mothers: Military Service and the Kurdish Conflict in Turkey
Journal Article

From Flat to Round Men: Male Characters in Saudi Women’s Fiction

Sanna Dhahir
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 31–49.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-3422512
Published: 01 March 2016
... in society have enriched Saudi women’s literary expression and perception of character. In portraying male characters, women have increasingly steered away from flat, stereotyped, and preconceived notions of men to more balanced and informed representations of men’s behaviors and positions in society. Saudi...
View articletitled, From Flat to Round Men: Male Characters in Saudi Women’s Fiction View PDF for article titled, From Flat to Round Men: Male Characters in Saudi Women’s Fiction
Journal Article

Representations of Women in the Writings of the Intelligentsia in Hashemite Iraq, 1921–1958

Orit Bashkin
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 53–82.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2008.4.1.53
Published: 01 March 2008
... national subjects, with equal rights. The discourse also had global aspects, as Iraqi intellectuals appropriated and hybridized colonial perceptions of Muslim women. Orit Bashkin received her Ph.D. at Princeton University in 2004. Her dissertation, “Intellectuals in Monarchic Iraq, 1921–1941,” looks...
View articletitled, Representations of Women in the Writings of the Intelligentsia in Hashemite Iraq, 1921–1958 View PDF for article titled, Representations of Women in the Writings of the Intelligentsia in Hashemite Iraq, 1921–1958
Journal Article

Love, Lebanese Style: Toward an Either/And Analytic Framework of Kinship

Sabiha Allouche
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 157–178.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7490953
Published: 01 July 2019
... is threefold. In addition to embracing the multiple subjectivity of the interlocutors, it moves beyond the standard political-economic approach that generally informs marriage studies in the Middle East and dismantles monolithic perceptions of Middle Eastern kin networks. Copyright © 2019 by the Association...
View articletitled, Love, Lebanese Style: Toward an Either/And Analytic Framework of Kinship View PDF for article titled, Love, Lebanese Style: Toward an Either/And Analytic Framework of Kinship
Journal Article

Lalla Essaydi’s Bullets and Bullets Revisited : Aesthetic and Epistemic Violence in a Globalized Art World

Naïma Hachad
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 1–21.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-8790196
Published: 01 March 2021
... sewn together to fabricate ceilings, walls, floors, furniture, jewelry, and clothes for her models. This article underscores how Essaydi’s use of a readable symbol of violence allows her to take part in and act on representational traditions that have shaped the perception of Arab Muslim women...
FIGURES
View articletitled, Lalla Essaydi’s Bullets and Bullets Revisited : Aesthetic and Epistemic Violence in a Globalized Art World View PDF for article titled, Lalla Essaydi’s Bullets and Bullets Revisited : Aesthetic and Epistemic Violence in a Globalized Art World
Journal Article

The Body in Pain and Pleasure: The Phenomenology of Embodiment in Rosa Jamali’s Poetry

Narges Montakhabi Bakhtvar, Hoda Niknezhad-Ferdos
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 337–356.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-10815497
Published: 01 November 2023
... with a phenomenological perception of pain and pleasure in the female body as a means of self-expression. For her, the female body can be portrayed via indirection and insinuation through which bodily dys-appearance (pain) and eu-appearance (pleasure) are invoked. Resonating with Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology...
View articletitled, The Body in Pain and Pleasure: The Phenomenology of Embodiment in Rosa Jamali’s Poetry View PDF for article titled, The Body in Pain and Pleasure: The Phenomenology of Embodiment in Rosa Jamali’s Poetry
Journal Article

From Islamists to Religious Patriots: Intersectional Identities of Religious Kurdish Women

Nadje Al-Ali, Mashuq Kurt
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 357–378.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-10815511
Published: 01 November 2023
... women’s mobilization, political views, perceptions of gender norms and relations, and self-ascribed identities. Based on original empirical research carried out in southeastern Turkey in 2015 and 2018, the article engages with the relevant literature on Islamist women’s mobilization, particularly...
View articletitled, From Islamists to Religious Patriots: Intersectional Identities of Religious Kurdish Women View PDF for article titled, From Islamists to Religious Patriots: Intersectional Identities of Religious Kurdish Women
Journal Article

Child Marriage in “Hitaw” and Mādīyān

Maryam Zehtabi
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (3): 335–349.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-11412078
Published: 01 November 2024
..., this article aims to examine the perceptions and portrayals of these girls and their sexuality within the realm of art and literature. Through this analysis it seeks to contribute to a deeper understanding of the social, cultural, and political dynamics that perpetuate child marriage and impact the lives...
View articletitled, Child Marriage in “Hitaw” and Mādīyān View PDF for article titled, Child Marriage in “Hitaw” and Mādīyān
Journal Article

The Unfolding of an Artist’s Book: Etel Adnan, Relationality, and the Fold

Rozen Whitworth
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 141–148.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-10961873
Published: 01 March 2024
... the spectacle that depoliticizes, overdetermining and threatening to overwhelm our capacity and will to respond. Perception was refigured as the reception and transformation of all kinds of transmissions, bringing reading, writing, and drawing close. Triumphant and solidaristic, the transmitting wave...
FIGURES
View articletitled, The Unfolding of an Artist’s Book: Etel Adnan, Relationality, and the Fold View PDF for article titled, The Unfolding of an Artist’s Book: Etel Adnan, Relationality, and the Fold
Journal Article

Power, Belonging, and Respectability: Classed, Gendered, and Racial Selves among Iranian Migrants in the United Kingdom

Atlas Torbati
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 311–319.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-9767982
Published: 01 July 2022
... study, conducted in my PhD dissertation, examines Iranian men’s different perceptions of sexual violence, also in the United Kingdom. The first study focuses on how gendered identities are performed within different classes. The second study argues that Iranian men perceive Iranian masculinity...
View articletitled, Power, Belonging, and Respectability: Classed, Gendered, and Racial Selves among Iranian Migrants in the United Kingdom View PDF for article titled, Power, Belonging, and Respectability: Classed, Gendered, and Racial Selves among Iranian Migrants in the United Kingdom
Journal Article

Women Weavers and Their Agency: Reconsidering Rug Weaving in Contemporary Iran

Golnesa Rezanezhad Pishkhani
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (2): 153–172.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-11176365
Published: 01 July 2024
... in Kashan show that, in the past, women from middle-income families wove carpets, but with [the] decline in carpet-weaving real wages, carpet weaving has become a sign of poverty.” This literature broadly focuses on weavers who came from poorer classes with no perceptible trace of personal interest...
View articletitled, Women Weavers and Their Agency: Reconsidering Rug Weaving in Contemporary Iran View PDF for article titled, Women Weavers and Their Agency: Reconsidering Rug Weaving in Contemporary Iran
Journal Article

Mosques, Collective Identity and Gender Differences Among Arab American Muslims

Amaney Jamal
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (1): 53–78.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-2005-1004
Published: 01 March 2005
... Muslim Americans in mosque communities, whereby the injustice that occurs to one Muslim becomes an injustice that has befallen the entire Muslim community (Bobo and Gillian 1990; Miller et al. 1981).9 In addition to common-fate perceptions among the mosqued Muslim community, visible signs...
View articletitled, Mosques, Collective Identity and Gender Differences Among Arab American Muslims View PDF for article titled, Mosques, Collective Identity and Gender Differences Among Arab American Muslims
Journal Article

Islamic Feminism between Islam and Islamophobia

Hina Azam
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 124–128.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-4297177
Published: 01 March 2018
.... Afterward I experienced an increasing disjuncture between my own conception of hijab as empowering and a public perception of hijab both as oppressive and as signifying alignment with conservative or extreme forms of Islam. Other hijab-wearing women in the United States may have felt similar disjunctures...
View articletitled, Islamic Feminism between Islam and Islamophobia View PDF for article titled, Islamic Feminism between Islam and Islamophobia
Journal Article

The Homoerotics of Orientalism

Kifah Hanna
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 227–229.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-6680296
Published: 01 July 2018
... out to excavate Anglo-European perceptions and fantasies of Middle Eastern sexuality, with a focus on male homoeroticism. In this substantial volume, Boone performs a close reading of an extensive repertoire of literary texts (including travelogues and fiction) and visual material (such as paintings...
View articletitled, The Homoerotics of Orientalism View PDF for article titled, The Homoerotics of Orientalism
Journal Article

The World Has Forgotten Us: Sinjar and the Islamic State’s Genocide of the Yezidis

Elif Çiğdem Artan
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 238–240.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-10462397
Published: 01 July 2023
... rights but would also support the perception of intersectionality for all migrant and refugee women and children communities in Western societies. From this perspective, this book would be beneficial to all political and social actors who are active in official and civic domains at the intersection...
View articletitled, The World Has Forgotten Us: Sinjar and the Islamic State’s Genocide of the Yezidis View PDF for article titled, The World Has Forgotten Us: Sinjar and the Islamic State’s Genocide of the Yezidis
Journal Article

Class and Habitus in the Formation of Gay Identities, Masculinities, and Respectability in Turkey

Haktan Ural, Fatma Umut Beşpınar
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 244–264.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-3861323
Published: 01 July 2017
... of familial networks in their social relations. Professional middle-class men (thirteen of twenty-four respondents) constitute another group that articulates a distinctive construction of gay masculinity. Their involvement in the gay community, family networks, and work relations influences perceptions...
View articletitled, Class and Habitus in the Formation of Gay Identities, Masculinities, and Respectability in Turkey View PDF for article titled, Class and Habitus in the Formation of Gay Identities, Masculinities, and Respectability in Turkey
Journal Article

Into the Wadi by Michele Drouart

Lisa Suhair Majaj
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 137–139.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2006.2.2.137
Published: 01 July 2006
... the structures that predetermine our knowledge of the other. Her book is an attempt to break through those structures, to put into words a more intimate knowledge not confined by the perceptions so often used to rationalize imperialist agendas. This is not an easy task. As she observes partway...
View articletitled, Into the Wadi by Michele Drouart View PDF for article titled, Into the Wadi by Michele Drouart