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Refashioning the Debate on Abortion in Postrevolutionary Iranian Cinema
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2025) 21 (1): 68–88.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Magdalena Rodziewicz Abstract The study is dedicated to the representation of unwanted pregnancy and abortion in Iranian cinema. The article’s principal objective is to discuss a certain narrative shift in the discourse surrounding this issue that has been observed in recent years. By analyzing...
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Abortion as a Contested Right in Occupied Palestine
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 384–389.
Published: 01 November 2018
... abortions in Occupied Palestine similarly face legal, social and procedural barriers that deprive them of dignity and force them into keeping unwanted pregnancies. Most Palestinians understand abortion as killing and associate it with a colonialist rather than a nationalist agenda. In this reading...
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Muftis in the Matrix: Comparing Online English- and Arabic-Language Fatwas about Emergency Contraception
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 314–332.
Published: 01 November 2018
... reproductive health internet “Emergency contraception” (EC) refers to an array of medications and devices that can be taken after sexual intercourse to reduce the risk of pregnancy. This class of postcoital contraception includes pills of different types and the intrauterine device (IUD). EC offers...
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Palestinian Midwives on the Front Line
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 379–383.
Published: 01 November 2018
... and restricted scope of practice. Care throughout the continuum of pregnancy, birth, and the postnatal period was poor. The previously respected traditional midwives ( dayat ) had lost authority and autonomy, and trained midwives ( qabilat ) had little of the same, as medicalization and hospitalization of birth...
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Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Volume 3: Family, Body, Sexuality, and Health ed by Suad Joseph
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 108–111.
Published: 01 July 2008
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plying restrictions in Arab countries is noted, as are variations among
Sunni schools of jurisprudence in terms of the stage of a pregnancy at
which abortion can be justifi ed (for the Hanafi school, up to 120 days
of pregnancy; for the Hanbali school, not at all). For Afghanistan, the
point...
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Recent News Coverage of Sexual and Reproductive Health in Lebanon
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 390–393.
Published: 01 November 2018
... not include an author name. With the exception of an account by a woman targeting a male audience, the remainder presumed a female reader. Articles that discussed refugees focused primarily on controlling fertility rates and maternal birth complications. None of the accounts discussed unwanted pregnancies...
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The Vagina and de Facto Feminism in the Artwork of Naʿama Snitkoff-Lotan
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 143–153.
Published: 01 March 2017
... the body in the girls’ religious world. Pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood emerged as central themes during the interview with Snitkoff-Lotan. She reported that in her childhood religious environment, sexual intercourse was not discussed. Rather discussions focused on the physiology of the body...
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From Mumbai to Tel Aviv: Distance and Intimacy in Transnational Surrogacy Arrangements
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 203–224.
Published: 01 July 2016
... the dichotomy between altruism and commodification. My interlocutors shifted the line between economics and intimacy while they assessed and negotiated the boundary between themselves and the surrogates during pregnancy and after delivery. This balancing act between emotional distance and closeness, I argue...
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Beyond Islamic versus Secular Framing: A Critical Analysis of Reproductive Rights Debates in Turkey
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 195–218.
Published: 01 July 2017
... conditions and how late in the pregnancy abortions can be performed. In the United States, for example, the debate between “pro-choice” and “pro-life” advocates has been ongoing for almost forty years. Around the world, legislation regulating women’s reproductive rights remains diverse. While in certain...
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Orientalism without Power?: Chinese Female Ob-Gyns in Rural Algeria and Morocco in the Post-Mao Era
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 105–133.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of domination and subordination” found in many instances of colonial contact zones (Pratt 1992 : 7). Unlike in urban areas, where ob-gyns cared for women throughout pregnancy, during which communication between the two parties was essential, Chinese ob-gyns in the North African hinterland were principally...
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Working Out Desire: Women, Sport, and Self-Making in Istanbul
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 285–289.
Published: 01 July 2022
... shows how women who work out at women-only gyms cannot completely escape the temporal regime based on gender roles. Her interlocutors tend to set their exercise goals with reference to pregnancy and childbirth. In Turkish culture a woman’s primary duty is assumed to be motherhood, which is considered...
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The Female Rehabilitation Home in Sharjah: Notes from the Field
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 168–172.
Published: 01 March 2017
... pregnancy. Emphasis is placed on religious discipline and activity for rehabilitative care. Rehabilitating femininity is construed through henna application and its beauty salon courses to provide the girls with career opportunities once they are dismissed. In a 2015 interview with me, Mariam Al-Salman...
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Aspirational Maternalism and the “Reconstitution” of Single Mothers in Morocco
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 45–67.
Published: 01 March 2018
... new subjects. Shared suffering and a selfless commitment to motherhood were key characteristics of the Mère Célibataire as reimagined here. Decisions about whether or not to keep a baby or continue a pregnancy were the central dramas in which WfW intervened through its triage and listening...
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Egyptian Family Planning Commercials: Mothers Bear Children, Fathers Bear Responsibility
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 341–345.
Published: 01 November 2020
... pregnancies would lead to the loss of physical beauty. Another commercial, “A man is more than just his authority, he is a man because he takes care of his family,” focused on men to drive home the message that having fewer children is more economically viable. These commercials implied that women may bear...
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The Conflation of Single Mothers and Prostitutes in Morocco: Qiwama , Legal Exclusion, and Paternal Impunity
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 294–303.
Published: 01 July 2021
... (ASF), if an expectant single woman files a complaint, asking the father to recognize his child, a judge can admit her pregnancy into court as proof of her “crime.” 8 On this issue, El Baz added that the courts do not prosecute single mothers as they did before, because that required placing...
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Amnesty International and the Idea of Muslim Women’s Human Rights
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 96–107.
Published: 01 November 2005
..., forced marriage and pregnancy, sexual slavery, and rape, and
pointed out that women were far more likely than men to suff er from
abuses that affl ict both. Women were raped in war or in prison more of-
ten than men, eighty percent of refugees were women and children, and
women faced discrimination...
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Contested Surrogacy and the Gender Order: An Israeli Case Study
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 21–44.
Published: 01 November 2007
... women seeking abor-
tion to intrusive interrogation certainly imperils their bodily autonomy.
It is also significant that throughout decades of abortion debates, it has
always been the woman’s or the baby’s health and never women’s au-
tonomy that justified pregnancy termination...
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But What If Someone Sees Me?: Women, Risk, and the Aftershocks of Iran’s Sexual Revolution
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 1–22.
Published: 01 July 2009
... that she
is afraid, not of the pain of the abortion, not of the potential of disease
or pregnancy, but most afraid of being caught; caught by the morality
police, her parents, or others who know her and her family. “You just
don’t get it,” she tells me, turning off...
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Modernity and Early Marriage In Iran: A View From Within
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (1): 65–94.
Published: 01 March 2006
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and psychosocial effects on adolescent health and reproduction, espe-
cially for girls (sexual exploitation of young girls, the impact on their
reproductive health, and early and multiple pregnancies), the denial of
human rights such as education and access to economic independence,
and finally...
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Birthing “Invisible” Children: State Power, Ngo Activism, and Reproductive Health Among “Illegal Migrant” Workers in Tel Aviv, Israel
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 55–88.
Published: 01 July 2005
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None of these pregnancies had been easy. Eight months and two weeks into
her first pregnancy, Priscilla sensed something was wrong; the baby was no
longer moving inside her. She and her husband went to a public hospital,
where a doctor determined via ultrasound that the baby was stillborn...
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