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Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (2): 153–172.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Golnesa Rezanezhad Pishkhani Abstract This article explores women’s agency in the production of handwoven rugs in both rural and urban areas of contemporary northern Iran. It examines research data through an intersectional lens to understand how various factors render subjects able or unable...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (1): 90–119.
Published: 01 March 2011
... for women around the world.
2. Internet rug sales and economic empowerment
In the second project, called Women Weavers OnLine, an Ameri-
can woman posts rugs from two Moroccan villages, Ben Smim in the
north and N’kob in the south, on the Internet as a pilot income genera-
tion project...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 216–237.
Published: 01 July 2022
... sugar cubes, and the aromatic halva platter that goes around the room with a giant serving spoon. It finds you through the tableau rugs of Qurʾan verses, generic landscapes, and portraits of slightly sexualized young women hanging on the wall in heavy but inexpensive wooden frames that were a staple...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 125–130.
Published: 01 November 2006
... indomitable
spirit, which fi nds creative expression in everyday small rebellions and
victories: having an indoor picnic during an Israeli-imposed curfew or
barely sticking her hand out the door to shake a rug in view of a sniper.
She explains how diffi cult it is to safeguard oneself from the grips...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 258–265.
Published: 01 July 2023
... not pray. His dark green prayer rug hung unused over a cupboard in his bedroom, like a reminder artifact of piety. I perceived Ali as very stressed, not least because of his lack of money. He struggled every day to find gigs or day jobs to afford the basics, like food and hygiene products, and every month...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2020
... or prostrating before God. Her prayer rug is portrayed as a refuge from the hostile world outside that seeks to rob her of her hijab, dignity, and right to self-determination. In addition to portraying Mariam’s sense of serenity and peace visually, through close-ups of her facial expressions and gestures, Ambah...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 60–80.
Published: 01 July 2008
...
masculinity experienced by soldiers in the Great War, typifi ed by the
deployment of trench warfare. Th e possibility of a more rugged and in-
dividualistic masculinity was able to persist in the colonial space (both
geographically and imaginatively). Th e “soldier as hero” challenged by
the mechanics...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 174–192.
Published: 01 July 2018
... Mashhad commented, “Little children, and skillful workers they are, too, work all day long in a rug factory for not enough food, no school or sunshine or play” (Kashani-Sabet 2011 , 136). Most poor children quit school after the elementary grades with some regional differences (136). In the villages...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 69–88.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of the father begin: “ Find wood, tether the horses, arrange the sacks, go into the cave and lay down the rugs, yes, the dark cave, go ,” the boy is ordered (9). This is the boy’s first experience of separation from his mother, and it is traumatic for him. In Kristeva’s terms, separation from the mother...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 113–137.
Published: 01 November 2012
... the orientalist image of the Arab male body.
This type embodies the heteronormative criteria of heteronormative
space, such as sporting facial hair, a muscular body, rugged demeanor,
or other features that attend to one’s proper masculinity. While Mc-
Cormick contends that this social formation has been...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 43–63.
Published: 01 March 2021
... on his views on the defense of Europe. During the interview he declared that “so many NATO statesmen could learn so much” from Nene Hatun. Ridgway also stressed the importance of Nene Hatun’s hometown, Erzurum. “About 130 rugged miles from the Soviet border,” he said, Erzurum and the headquarters...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 1–24.
Published: 01 July 2005
... at the Battle of Badr, “and with its
small price, he [Ali] should begin his life.” Fatima’s dowry, consisting of “A
hand mill, a wooden bowl and a cotton rug” (156) is similarly meager and
inconsequential.17 Shari'ati does not want to shatter the idealized lifestyle of
the prophet’s family in his...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 8–39.
Published: 01 November 2014
... or male
on female violence was taken seriously insofar as it threatened to under-
mine a man’s honor and status as the head of his household (D’Cruze
and Rao 2005, 6). Sex crimes in early modern Venice were treated with
leniency as long as they fit with the prevailing social order: Guido Rug...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 105–133.
Published: 01 March 2022
... higher volume, difficulty, and risk of surgeries than in China” (Chen 2017 ) and the association of these rugged working conditions with poor schemes of reproductive-health management. Their narratives are highly uniform in two major complaints: first, workload was immense; second, pressure...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (1): 110–146.
Published: 01 March 2005
... in professional jobs. At the same time,
Iranian census data showed a fairly large proportion of female labor in manu-
facturing, although the nature of that participation was predominantly ru-
ral and traditional (e.g., rug making and handicrafts). In Tunisia, too, as in
other MENA countries...
