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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 March 2022
... to be studied. The articles examine microlevel contact zones, in which women’s agency shaped and was shaped by colonial and postcolonial encounters, decolonization, and the formation of national professions. They reveal tensions within the medical sphere, between men and women, foreign and local, colonizer...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 179–198.
Published: 01 July 2015
... Abouzeid’s engagement with tensions triggered by colonial encounters and postcolonial nation building. Copyright © 2015 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2015 postcolonial female agency Leila Abouzeid Arabic autobiography Moroccan autobiography Arab women’s writing...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 99–101.
Published: 01 March 2016
... that Jansen’s theoretical contributions relating to the dynamic relationship of local dress production in conversation with global market demands substantially further our knowledge of postcolonial Islamic societies and the use of dress to validate indigenous agency. Moroccan adult female dress becomes a canvas...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 62–65.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., Scheiwiller has extensively used a rich collection of images from archival sources in Iran, Europe, and the United States alongside secondary works on Qajar photography. Theoretically, the text employs Homi Bhabha’s work in postcolonial theory, while engaging productively with Afsaneh Najmabadi’s Women...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 122–130.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Hannah Elsisi he289@cam.ac.uk Copyright © 2023 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2023 The postcolony, it is said, is the site of great violence. Power is customarily exerted in the service of death, not life; bodies, not minds, are the central objects of its...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 3–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of empirical authenticity. Equating voice with human agency and interiority is tempting on political grounds as well. As academics, “we are keen to recover and restore the subaltern voice deeply buried in historical documents” (Inoue 2003 , 180). Postcolonial theorists, however, problematize liberal attempts...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 94–97.
Published: 01 March 2009
... and that these
constructions are always linked with, and even based on, mechanisms of
power operating at intersections of race, nation, gender, class, and reli-
gion. In my view, the main originality of the book consists in its capacity
to manifest the impact of French colonialism and postcolonialism...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 110–112.
Published: 01 July 2012
...Alyson E. Jones 110 mn Journal of Middle East women’s studies 8:2
that coincided with its further gendering as displaced, mostly female,
Shi‘a villagers replaced a declining Maronite workforce.
Chapter 5 lays bare the state’s own gender bias regarding women’s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 121–128.
Published: 01 November 2008
... beyond, and in some ways against,
those preliminary analyses of “Islamic” feminism and Muslim women’s
agency.
Saba Mahmood, in her book, Politics of Piety, proposesproposes thatthat despitedespite
their inclusionary intentions, existing feminist accounts of the agency...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 398–400.
Published: 01 November 2019
... from codes of hygiene, biomedicine, and reproductive health. In so doing, she makes an important contribution to the history of postcolonial Middle East and North Africa, gender studies, fashion, photography, and visual culture. Khartoum at Night: Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 109–111.
Published: 01 July 2011
... of stories, poems, and—taking off in the postcolonial period—
novels, testifies to a long tradition of feminine literary production that is
often linked to a subversion of patriarchal power. Diaconoff claims that
a period of political liberalization under the rule of Sultan Mohammed
VI nurtured...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 113–116.
Published: 01 July 2012
...
investigation, Lohman remains culturally sensitive and provides thor-
ough documentation for her arguments. She also strikes a fine balance
between evaluating representations of Umm Kulthum and highlighting
the singer’s artistic agency. This book is essential reading for anyone
interested in gender...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 86–109.
Published: 01 July 2007
...Roksana Bahramitash This paper reviews the experience of Iranian women during the reform era (1997–2004) from a postcolonial feminist theoretical perspective, and challenges the mainstream literature on women in the Muslim world in its tendency to portray them as passive victims. Iranian women...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 88–92.
Published: 01 March 2016
... the importance of comparative analysis, and open several new lines of academic research on the Maghreb. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh’s Ideal Refugees explores a different type of female political agency. The prominence of women as “ideal refugees” in the Polisario camps has been crucial for the political...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 75–94.
Published: 01 March 2019
..., and these beliefs may be hurtful or integral to their overall agency. While literary criticism of Moroccan literature, more broadly, has followed practices of healing and women’s magic as forms of female empowerment, Lalami’s paradigm does not follow this precise pathway. Women’s magic is not the source...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (2): 123–132.
Published: 01 July 2010
... of a tolerant, liberal, inclusive secularism undergirded by
an emancipatory politics that is invested in the humanist ideals of self-ex-
pression, self-realization, and self-fulfi llment, axiomatic when it examines
human agency in function of the desire to give women or Muslims “their
voice...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 108–110.
Published: 01 July 2012
... College
Malek Abisaab’s monograph on the history of working women in Leba-
non’s tobacco industry is an essential contribution to the historiography
of Lebanon, in particular to its labor, gender, colonial, and postcolonial
facets. Perhaps more importantly, Militant Women of a Fragile...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (1): 164–166.
Published: 01 March 2014
... friends with Sondra Hale in 1974, during a year
they each lived in Khartoum. She is a medical anthropologist known
especially for her long-term cultural anthropology research on female
genital cutting (FGC) and other health issues in Sudan. She has been a
research and evaluation consultant on FGC...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (1): 149–163.
Published: 01 March 2014
... was because, as an outsider, a man writing about women’s
oral history, he may not have been as deeply entangled in self-criticism
as I. As an outsider in Middle East and African studies, I have recently
given more credence to the postcolonial theories of global South scholars
and activists...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 12–35.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of the trajectories of women’s imperial agency, mobility, and work during the interwar years, offering an additional way to interpret them within the colonial context. Most studies of European women in the colonies focus on female settlers or “incorporated wives” of colonial officials and on the role of domesticity...
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