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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 311–319.
Published: 01 July 2022
... Marianne . 2002 . “ Patriarchal Reconstruction and Witch-Hunting .” In The Witchcraft Reader , edited by Oldridge Darren , 276 – 88 . London : Routledge . Karimi Zeinab . 2020 . “ Khanevadehye Mohtaram : Iranian Migrant Parents Struggling for Respectability .” In Family Life...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 244–264.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Haktan Ural; Fatma Umut Beşpınar Abstract This article examines how gay men engage with masculine respectability in urban Turkey. Our analysis of twenty-four in-depth interviews in Ankara shows that gay men’s self-presentation generally conforms to the expectations of masculine appearance...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 376–394.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., in factories or as domestic servants, violated classed and gendered notions of respectability. Theft offered the possibility of material gain without great loss in status if one were captured, since poor and working-class women who lived in Egypt’s growing cities between the two world wars already had...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 195–215.
Published: 01 July 2022
... within the community, the article shows that nationalist and religious discourses produced by the historical contexts respectively stimulated (semi)arranged in-group marriages in the 1990s and self-initiated exogamous marriages as of the early 2000s. Among the group, Islam has become the primary form...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 283–305.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Sarah Ghabrial Abstract Between 1870 and 1930 the French colonial state in Algeria expanded its regulatory prerogatives in the governance of Muslim “personal status law” without abandoning its policy commitments to “respect local custom.” This article examines this fraught historical process...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (2): 86–114.
Published: 01 July 2010
..., Syrian-Lebanese men have joined with non-Middle Eastern women in reinforcing their respective ties to the belly dance phenomenon. These moves across gender and ethnic lines, I argue, not only reveal Syrian-Lebanese men’s complicity in the marginalization of Arab women through the belly dance, but in so...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (1): 105–127.
Published: 01 March 2014
... themselves unable to consider any other issue of the Sudanese women’s struggles once they heard about FGC. In the face of this imperial discourse and the harm it has done, both to international alliances and to respect for feminist movements in their varying contexts, I utilize Hale’s cautionary principles...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 42–62.
Published: 01 March 2015
... that emphasized secular, urban, and middle-class notions of domesticity and respectability. The literary prostitute was a marginal figure used to envision a new era of women’s rights through her exclusion and excision from the imagined national future. The instrumentalization of the figure of the prostitute...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 181–202.
Published: 01 July 2016
... of bodily appearance and forms of intimate relations. Beauty salon customers and workers create strategies to deal with (bodily) intimacy and test the moral, social, and religious boundaries of what is attractive, respectable, or permissible. Defying common assumptions, upwardly mobile pious women display...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 19–57.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Mona Russell This paper examines the development of advertising for soap and clothing in Egypt between the late nineteenth century and 1936, when women’s bodies evolved from non-representation to mobilized political figures to highly sexualized objects used to market commodities. In many respects...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 1–27.
Published: 01 November 2013
... that demanded “dignity” may provide particular opportunities for the women’s movement. A gendered concept, dignity suggests that the state must respect the integrity, safety, and autonomy of the body. Despite massive challenges to the women’s movement and its allies in Egypt as conservative forces are also...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 382–410.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Emine Rezzan Karaman Abstract This article analyzes the construction of motherhood as a form of political agency in Turkey with particular references to the Saturday Mothers and the Peace Mothers, respectively, the mothers of the disappeared and the mothers of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 366–394.
Published: 01 November 2021
... most impediments toward Egyptian independence; however, British troops remained in the Suez Canal zone. With respect to economic history, multinationals were expanding in Egypt, while an emerging bourgeoisie worked to establish local industries. With World War II came economic crisis: inflation...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 64–95.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Arielle Gordon Abstract Scholars have long accounted for representations of women in the Iranian Revolution by categorically classifying them as “devout mothers” or “heroic sisters,” embodied respectively in the Shiʾi archetypes of Fatima and Zainab. However, a closer look at images of militant...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 63–79.
Published: 01 March 2015
... through dance and promoted by Jordanian society is not as fixed as it appears. The dancers worked within its limits to navigate gendered expectations of ideal womanhood, redefining respectability and using strategies of disavowal to extend their freedoms. Dancing with patriarchy in this way allowed them...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 442–447.
Published: 01 November 2022
... and Development Abroad (APHEDA), and Janet would accept any opportunity to speak publicly about Wael’s story and, within that, the story of Palestine and the struggle for human rights. Being looked out for with such care and respect was so important for Janet. It helped her find her place in a very different...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 1–9.
Published: 01 March 2012
... years has this subject been researched with respect to colonial
and postcolonial settings (Sengupta 2009) and here also with respect
to the Middle East.1 Approaches are highly diverse, ranging from cul-
tural studies to psychosocial perspectives. Rare but highly interesting
exceptions studying...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 350–353.
Published: 01 November 2017
... Gökarıksel 2016 ). In “Disreputable by Definition” Hanan Hammad explains how interwar Egyptian women participated in theft. Poverty placed women in an antagonistic relationship with the elite ideal of satr , a concept of Egyptian respectability that emphasizes “sexual, moral, and socioeconomic...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 387–407.
Published: 01 November 2022
... these letters as a manifestation of Abillama’s social positioning (educated and middle class) in Beirut society; an expression of the various codes (female respectability, middle-class morality, and cultural constructions of women’s “place”) that shaped Abillama’s understanding, position, and viewpoint...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 139–160.
Published: 01 July 2015
.... As Zain’s words indicate, respectability in Amman is increasingly skin-deep. Many women have a stake in directly challenging such veiling regimes and the hegemonic forms of masculinity that make them necessary. Women’s decisions and practices in this regard seem to be primarily structured by the male gaze...
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