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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 326–328.
Published: 01 November 2020
... can be constrained by state attempts to center them in a broader project of uplifting the nation. Her attention to the intersections of multiple axes of power through and around her actors is particularly instructive. Gerschultz’s analytic voice builds throughout the book, which closes...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 264–282.
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...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 105–133.
Published: 01 March 2022
... to a hard-power colonial state apparatus, they retained considerable situational power over their patients. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2022 Chinese female ob-gyns medical mission Algeria Morocco Orientalism Unfolding...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 311–319.
Published: 01 July 2022
... be at the center of the researchers’ attention. Exploring the power relations embedded in diasporic narratives offers more nuanced understandings of belonging and respect and demonstrates the fluidity of migrant’s positionality in different contexts. The central point to these two studies...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 235–237.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Işıl Karacan No single book can encompass everything. However, The Power of the People adeptly addresses mainstream historiographical questions, including top-down state-building strategies and the so-called societal backwardness of ordinary people, providing a nuanced and insightful analysis...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 55–88.
Published: 01 July 2005
... SARAH S. WILLEN 55
BIRTHING “INVISIBLE” CHILDREN:
STATE POWER, NGO ACTIVISM, AND
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AMONG
“ILLEGAL MIGRANT” WORKERS IN
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL
SARAH S. WILLEN...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 107–109.
Published: 01 November 2006
...Christa Salamandra Women and the Media in the Middle East: Power through Self-Expression , Sakr Naomi , editor. London : I. B. Tauris , 2004 . viii + 248 pp. including chapter notes, bibliography and index. £45.00 hardback, £15.99 paperback. Copyright © 2006 Association...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 340–342.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Neha Vora A Society of Young Women: Opportunities of Place, Power, and Reform in Saudi Arabia Le Renard Amélie Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2014 . 224 pages. isbn 9780804785440 Copyright © 2015 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2015...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 87–108.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Nazanin Shahrokni Despite Iran’s geopolitical importance and mounting global concerns over its domestic and international practices, the state and its diverse mechanisms of rule have been largely neglected in mainstream sociology. To understand the state’s shifting modality of power between its...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 126–129.
Published: 01 November 2007
..., anthropology, history, and
Middle Eastern cultures will find this book an intriguing and challenging
exploration of a subject that merits more academic attention.
Veiled Empire:
Gender & Power in Stalinist Central Asia
Douglas Northrop. Ithaca...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 225–245.
Published: 01 July 2016
... of sexuality, desire, sex, and gender in Turkey. Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 state violence intimacy sex gender sexuality The relationship between intimacy and state power has attracted significant scholarly attention over the last two decades. From...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 12–35.
Published: 01 March 2022
... at the lower strata of British colonial society. Nurses’ tales thus offer a unique perspective for investigating colonial power relations and the intersections of medicine, gender, race, and class. 26. ONA Annual Report 1940, 3, ONAA, box 131. 27. See n. 11. 28. Department of Health, Annual...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 368–373.
Published: 01 November 2018
... to feed multiple turbines, which deprives all living creatures in the ecosystem of their life source. Following the Gezi Uprising in 2013, we felt the need to learn from grassroots struggles, ongoing since 1998, against the construction of small hydroelectric power plants (SHPs) on rivers in numerous...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 165–192.
Published: 01 July 2020
... power that circulated in it, and the multiplicity of bodies that came into contact inside its physical boundaries, mark it as a historically specific and unique social place—one that stood in a liminal temporal and physical space—at the crux of Iran’s engagements with modernization and in the very city...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 197–219.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Shayna Silverstein Abstract This essay analyzes how dance, gender, and state power function together as a significant node of critique in recent cultural production that addresses authoritarianism in Syria. Identifying the symbolic trope of dabke , a popular dance ubiquitous in Syrian life...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (2): 173–198.
Published: 01 July 2024
... questions of the relationships between art, agency, gender, and power. The article sheds light on how art can be mobilized both to navigate daily obstacles and challenge the hegemonic power of official institutions and to induce paradigm shifts within the genre of writing itself. The article argues...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 209–231.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Mustafa Menshawy Abstract Research on the powers or roles of first ladies in authoritarian Arab states suffers from two gaps. First, there are always attempts to homogenize women under which the president’s spouse is simply subsumed within categories such as “Arab women,” “Muslim women...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 56–85.
Published: 01 July 2007
...Nadia Yaqub This article examines the role of the wedding in three Palestinian movies, Wedding in Galilee, Rana’s Wedding , and Paradise Now . It describes how filmmakers Michel Khleifi and Hany Abu-Assad harness the power of the wedding to construct Palestinian selves (and especially gendered...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 157–178.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Sabiha Allouche Abstract This article draws on a year of fieldwork conducted in Lebanon to highlight the paradoxical entanglement of power with romantic love in Lebanon, evident in the intricate gendered, aged, classed, and sect-related negotiations that accompany courtship periods. In addition...
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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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