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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 199–215.
Published: 01 July 2015
... am attentive to interiority and psychology in A Mountainous Journey , which I read to examine the writing of self in relation to intimates in Tuqan’s life. I examine Tuqan’s writing of life-as-journey and the protagonist’s struggle to articulate a self in a traumatic family context the author...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 1–25.
Published: 01 July 2012
... with a discussion of Kenneth J. Gergen’s Relational Being: Beyond Self and Community (Oxford University Press, 2009). Third, I review some of the standing tropes through which Arab women as subjects are viewed. Fourth, I explore what these inquiries could mean for the study of Arab women’s subjectivity...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 10815511.
Published: 30 October 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...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 51–77.
Published: 01 July 2012
... of the City University of New York. Her dissertation, titled “Race against Time: Governing Femininity and Reproducing the Future in Revolutionary Iraq, 1945-63,” looks at family and gender reform in Iraq in relation to secular and Islamic pedagogies of self-formation and to new productions of time and space...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 108–135.
Published: 01 November 2013
... make efforts to
look wealthy, through displaying sophisticated self-presentations and fake
branded items. This norm can be related to the extremely rapid and sudden
rise of consumerism in the Saudi society in the aftermath of 1973 oil boom.
Moreover, new norms are asserted...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 233–234.
Published: 01 July 2015
... of (chosen) “skin” (as Siamak Movahedi and Gohar Homayounpour [ 2012 ] argue for how the chador in Tehran is experienced by some women in psychoanalysis)? In the articles on autobiographies in this issue, I wondered about skin as the package of the embodied relational self, discussed in different ways...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (1): 79–109.
Published: 01 March 2005
...; Ruddick 1989), have struggled to accommodate
relationality to agential desire (agency being commonly equated with the au-
tonomous self). The construct of “relational individualism” has been offered,
in feminist therapeutic discourses, as a healthy balance between the perceived
equally dysfunctional...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 1–13.
Published: 01 November 2012
... forms of queer selfhood. Yet, like all other authors
in this special issue, Gagné does not approach cyberspace as detached,
but rather focuses on the co-constituting relations of virtual and urban
spaces (GayRomeo and Beirut), and on the intertwined-ness of cyber
representations of self...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (2): 1–30.
Published: 01 July 2010
... and a desire for the fulfi llment of the spiritual self provide a criti-
cal entrée into “the public.” Work outside the space of the home and the
relational roles of wife and mother becomes possible for these women
through Islam, and particularly, through an Islam in which they claim...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 179–198.
Published: 01 July 2015
... 2003 ). Only Eva Hunter and Pauline Homsi Vinson explicitly deal with Return to Childhood , although neither examines its narrative strategies. Multiple examples in Return to Childhood indicate coming to self and voice in relation to other voices that are distinct from the autobiographical “I...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 10815483.
Published: 30 October 2023
... ned not only by an increase in women s availability, allowing them to redirect their attention to themselves, but also by the birth of a new set of dreams and aspirations related to their self-realization outside domesticity. While midlife gives rise to new imaginaries of the self, the thriving...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 423–429.
Published: 01 November 2019
.... Their work showed me that the past continually influences what we think we can achieve and underpins the most fundamental conception of the self and its relation to the other. My mentor and dear friend Amir Al-Azraki offered me the opportunity to be part of the HSI workshop. From the beginning I had...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 113–137.
Published: 01 November 2012
... animates the connections within
GayRomeo.com between queer practices, self-description, and local
identity politics and social relations. With each section, I discuss how
these connections are mobilized in various ways, beginning with the
productive relationship between the Internet and queer...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 22–42.
Published: 01 March 2021
... fiberboard, 224 × 126 × 1 cm. Figure 2. Lilian Weisberger, Run Lili Run, 2011. Acrylic and pastels on medium-density fiberboard, 224 × 126 × 1 cm. Carl Jung’s “idiosyncratic personality” is in line with Winnicott’s ( 2009 ) “true self” and “false self.” These concepts relate to the question...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 244–264.
Published: 01 July 2017
... ). These strategies incorporate identity categories into a performative realm where gay men struggle to constitute a respectable self. In this study we suggest that the cultural construction of respectability is a class-based process informed by diverse social relations. In a different vein, Serkan, a twenty...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 195–215.
Published: 01 July 2022
... in relation to their national origins; being “Palestinian” was uttered as the first self-designation. They also pointed out their secular lifestyles and looser connections with religion. They attended gatherings such as the Al-Bireh Society National Convention, where Palestinian Americans met annually...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (1): 128–132.
Published: 01 March 2014
...-
serving and advancing the tactic of anthropological self-critique and the
commitment to de-colonizing ethnography within the confines of the
academic industrial complex (Del Gandio 2010). Consider for instance
how Hale has developed ethnographic methods that centralize the inter-
related practices...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 188–191.
Published: 01 November 2010
... their familial relations, manage derogatory stereotypes, and
redefine their claims to self-respect. Her treatment of reformist Islamic
viewpoints is particularly convincing in this regard.
On the whole, Ewing’s book offers a thoughtful treatment of Mus-
lim/Turkish men’s place in contemporary...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 338–342.
Published: 01 November 2018
... to interrogate the claims of the self-assured and self-affirming rights-bearing subject at the heart of modern popular sovereignty. In other words, the postrevolutionary emancipated political subject was indeed making loud and public claims in relation to waning absolutist sovereignty—even as that same subject...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 121–128.
Published: 01 November 2008
... of
feminist thought in ways that erase the religious subjectivity and agency
of Islamic women. Th ey do so, Mahmood contends, by continuing to rely
on secular discursive frameworks built upon ideas such as resistance,
autonomy, and self-fulfi llment to explain the agency of Muslim women...
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