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... the first in their families to go to a university. Accounts of women’s agency during this period have tended to read the relationship between the revolutionary state and sociopolitically active women as one of religious repression versus secular resistance (Esfandiari 1997 ; Gerami 1996 ; Rostami-Povey...

... book focuses more on individual stories of gendered subversion of social norms and its consequences, the other tackles collective revolutionary enactments and their possibilities. In both, women face silencing, marginalization, and violence, yet what is distinctive in these books...

... empowerment. The women’s movement was confronted with suppression from the moment the Islamic government assumed power; however, it developed over time despite decades of sometimes intense repression, finally peaking in the revolutionary movement of 2022. The revolutionary movement of 2022 is rooted...

... success, all of which operate largely out of bounds of the state. Still, though Khtek doesn’t acknowledge typical Moroccan political entities (i.e., the Makhzen/political elite), her music should be understood as revolutionary in nature. Female rappers like Khtek think beyond the social stratification...

...Margot Badran 152  mn  Journal of Middle East women’s studies  10:2 Book Reviews mn Revolutionary Womanhood: Feminisms, Modernity, and the State in Nasser’s Egypt Laura Bier. New York: Stanford...

...Shahla Talebi This paper journeys along the theoretical and historical trajectories of the early stage of post-revolutionary Iran, marked by an external war with Iraq and internal political suppression. Specifically, it grapples with the intricacies of loss, mourning, and survival in the meanders...

...Alborz Ghandehari Abstract This article argues that Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s Missing Soluch and Parinoush Saniee’s My Share are landmark works of feminist historical writing in Iran that disrupt official narratives in the country regarding the revolutionary project. Despite the different positions...

... revolutionary culture. Finally, it contends that only with the consolidation of Khomeini’s power and the start of the Iran-Iraq War is this figure renamed Zainab and sustained as a central icon of the Islamic Republic. Long before the imposition of hijab, the appearance of women’s bodies existed at the center...

...) delineate two psychological modes of the protagonists’ coping with patriarchal oppression. While Aisha’s self-harm is therapeutic and cathartic, Hosna’s suicide is revolutionary on societal levels. Although both acts stem from the destructive patriarchal practice of forced marriage, they vary...

... emboldened by the Arab Spring, the master frame of dignity may resonate across the Egyptian public since it is a revolutionary frame, as well, yet lays bare longstanding grievances of the diverse Egyptian women’s movement. diane singerman  mn  1 YOUTH, GENDER...

... revolutionary movements? What type of counterrevolution characterized the Arab Spring? How did counterrevolutions succeed? The Age of Counter-revolution answers these questions in eight chapters and 367 pages. Allinson argues that there were revolutions in Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Tunisia, and Bahrain...

... revolutionary interlocutors that they had lost the political battle for Syria for the time being. The book, however, suggests that the revolution continued to impact the lifeworlds of those engaged in it even after they were displaced, just as it lived on in new forms after it was defeated. To sustain...

... in the book as “to introduce the scope and scale of the revolutionary Kurdish women’s liberation movement’s political vision and practice from its own viewpoint, with the hope of building bridges between struggles for liberation” (xix). Engaged with ideas and practices of other system-critical social...

... in being inquiries into the gendered and sexualized conditions of and for revolutionary politics. Superficial likenesses aside—all focus on gender in Egypt—Marwan M. Kraidy’s Naked Blogger of Cairo , Maria Frederika Malmström’s Politics of Female Circumcision in Egypt , and Mariz Tadros’s Resistance...

... as “raw material” to be processed in the First World academy. She defined her practice as deploying the critical perspectives and theories of those she wrote about and with whom she stood in solidarity. Harlow discussed the narratives produced by revolutionary struggles, political prisoners...

..., Provocation, Politics is a groundbreaking contribution to the anthropology of policing, surveillance, and resistance. It combines long-term ethnographic research conducted in one of Istanbul’s many revolutionary neighborhoods inhabited mainly by urban working-class Turkish and Kurdish Alevis with archival...

.... Appearing in 2011, the year the ongoing revolution was unleashed, Bier’s book on “revolution- ary womanhood” in the context of the 1952 Revolution and the regime it brought to power allows readers to compare, interrogate, and re/define revolutionary womanhood and how the people or the state construct...

... is was the project of T.S. Elliot, Hemingway, and Fitzger- ald. Ironically enough, this was also the project of Iran’s revolutionaries, who would later ban the works of these authors and ultimately drive 146  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES Nafi si from the country for continuing to teach them...

... Benjamin’s “revolutionary nostalgia,” which she reframes as a renewed conviviencia . This nostalgia is oriented toward a history of relatively convivial Muslim-Jewish relations in the Middle East prior to the establishment of Israel. The point of conjuring this shared past is to refuse universal narrations...

..., and contemporary dance (10–11). However, because of strict scrutiny and instances of penalty, much dance remains underground. A significant exception is the “rhythmic movements” form ( harakat-i mawzun ), which employs “religious, ‘revolutionary’ ( inqilabi ), or mystical themes” and is typically granted official...