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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 100–102.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Alexandra Jerome Why the French Don’t Like Headscarves: Islam, the State, and Public Space , Bowen John R. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2007 . Pp. x, 290 . ISBN 978-0-691-12506-0 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2009 100 JOURNAL...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (2): 115–122.
Published: 01 July 2010
...Naazneen Diwan Copyright © 2010 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2010 NAAZNEEN DIWAN 115
BRIEF COMMUNICATION
Carving Out a Public Space for
Multiple Interpretations...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 86–114.
Published: 01 July 2006
... (2004, editor). Copyright © 2006 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2006 86 JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES
THE FEMINIZATION OF PUBLIC SPACE:
WOMEN’S ACTIVISM, THE FAMILY LAW,
AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN MOROCCO
Fatima Sadiqi and Moha...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (2): 1–30.
Published: 01 July 2010
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AND ISLAMIST WOMEN IN YEMEN:
Rethinking Space and Activism
Stacey Philbrick Yadav
ABSTRACT
Th e gradual but marked Islamization of the public in Yemen...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 366–394.
Published: 01 November 2021
..., profiteering, black markets, rising inequality, and the return of British troops to strategic locations around the country. This article argues that the hybrid beauty represents the push and pull between women’s emerging roles in public spaces and traditional values, imperialism versus authenticity, local...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (2): 173–198.
Published: 01 July 2024
... women use various forms of art to make sense of these obstacles and navigate the struggles of daily life. By narrating the story of one Palestinian woman and her relationship with writing, this article explores Palestine women’s attempts to redefine public space and discourse while reflecting on broader...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 240–255.
Published: 01 July 2021
... and poisoning of private and public spaces in Baghdad. Transformations brought about by shelling and sanctions are at the heart of the nature of war as that which renders bodies isolated, static, and toxic. References Abunimah Ali , and Masri Rania . 2002 . “ The Media’s Deadly Spin on Iraq...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 143–165.
Published: 01 July 2016
... referring to women-only spaces in the culture of mahremiyet (intimacy, privacy). This article furthers the scholarship on Muslim sexualities by examining the diversity of women’s concerns regarding their public sexualities and the boundary-making dynamics in the culture of mahremiyet . I argue...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 89–118.
Published: 01 November 2008
... and the public spheres. In the past two decades, gradual transgressions of urf and sharia have become a sign of modernity and resistance for many women and young people who wish to generate changes in their situation. Since 2001, the trend of willfully neglected veiling (bad-hejabi) in physical space has been...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 220–239.
Published: 01 July 2021
... the sexes within public spaces, and canceling reforms to the Family Protection Law, which had taken about five decades to accomplish. The Islamic regime deconstructed prerevolutionary women’s identity in order to reconstruct a new one based on the dictates of the state, often emulating religious figures...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 35–59.
Published: 01 July 2006
... to participate
in the production and dissemination of alternative knowledge and
the creation of transgressive spaces.
he impact of new media on the public sphere in the Middle East and
TNorth Africa (MENA) has generated interesting reflections over the
last decades. The rise of modern...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 3–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of women’s voices than a prohibition of their speaking/singing in gender-mixed publics, such as political gatherings, weddings, and concerts, and their confinement to all-female spaces. In her account, women’s liberation consequently becomes equated with the circulation of women’s voices in mixed-gender...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 108–135.
Published: 01 November 2013
... women’s life-
Wstyles in Riyadh, I was surprised by the indifference many of
them displayed toward the rules that are supposed to govern their self-
presentations in public spaces. Most of these rules correspond to the
maximalist interpretation of Islamic precepts promoted by several state...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 340–342.
Published: 01 November 2015
... Renard found in her fieldwork in the “archipelago of public spaces” (2) where young women spend their daily lives in Riyadh—malls, workplaces, university campuses, and religious organizations—that homosociality, rather than constraining them, enables certain forms of empowerment and identification...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 238–239.
Published: 01 July 2015
... November 1, 2014 www.nazra.org Nazra for Feminist Studies The 2011 revolution and its aftermath changed the landscape of public space for women, as huge numbers of women and men of different ages, social backgrounds, and political affiliations became involved. The revolution led...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 97–100.
Published: 01 March 2009
... Nicolas Sarkozy, the same Sar-
kozy who threatened in 2005 to “steam clean” the immigrant suburbs
of their “scum.”
Why the French Don’t Like Headscarves:
Islam, the State, and Public Space
John R. Bowen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 56–85.
Published: 01 July 2007
... for brides and grooms, but to some extent for all attend-
ees. Th ey oft en take place in communal spaces (churches, rented halls,
outdoors), and involve visual or sonic public announcements of their
enactments—the publishing of banns, the ringing of church bells, music
and dance, and processions...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 40–61.
Published: 01 November 2014
...—a revisiting of
my past studies of public space, especially feminists’ use of public space
(see, for example, Hale 2011). Here I also rely on Manuel Castells (2012),
who, in his analysis of the contemporary insurrections, uses public space
and cyberspace as referents and on a number of recent, post...
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Challenging Reified Masculinities: Men as Survivors of Politically Motivated Sexual Assault in Egypt
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 323–342.
Published: 01 November 2016
... .” Conflict, Security, and Development 12 , no. 4 : 417 – 42 . Tadros Mariz . 2013a . “ Database of Collective Actors Involving Men Tackling Gender-Based Violence in Public Space in Post-Mubarak Egypt .” IDS Evidence Report 14, July . www.ids.ac.uk/publication/database-of-collective-actors...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 137–138.
Published: 01 November 2008
... Program on the Middle
East and North Africa for her project, “Authority and Public Space in
Iran” (2002–03). She was scientifi c and executive coordinator of the Atlas
of Tehran Metropolis (2005). In 2006–07 she was a Keddie Balzan Fellow
at the University of California, Los Angeles. Since 2002 she...
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