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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 139–160.
Published: 01 July 2015
... of satr and zeena come together through fashionable veiling in Amman. I argue that veiled interviewees use fashion to turn veiling into a beautification practice under the guise of concealment as they navigate gender-conservative social contexts that restrict their mobility and choices. The women enact...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 376–394.
Published: 01 November 2017
... , April . ʿAli Muhammad Khayri Muhammad . 1965 . Al-Rif wa al-Hadar wa Zahirat al-Jarima: Dirasa Nazariyya wa Maydaniyya (The Phenomenon of Crime in the Countryside and City: A Theoretical and Empirical Study). Cairo : Dar al-Nahda . El-Aswad el-Sayed . 2004 . “ Thaqafat al-Satr wa...
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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 (2018) 14 (2): 152–173.
Published: 01 July 2018
... that a khuntha mushkil should follow female dress requirements because a woman’s state of ritual purity is based in all circumstances on satr al-ʿawra , or “covering the nakedness,” whereas if the khuntha became a man, his earlier failure to wear seamless clothes could be excused as an exceptional circumstance...
