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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 306–324.
Published: 01 November 2015
... of Resistance .” Qualitative Research 6 , no. 3 : 385 – 402 . 7. For more information about living arrangements for Israeli-Palestinian single mothers, see Meler 2014 . 6. A badal marriage is an exchange marriage whereby a brother and a sister marry a sister and a brother of another family...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 1–22.
Published: 01 July 2009
... 2009 PARDIS MAHDAVI 1
“BUT WHAT IF SOMEONE SEES ME?”
Women, Risk, and the Aftershocks
of Iran’s Sexual Revolution
Pardis Mahdavi
ABSTRACT
Since the Iranian...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of a homogenizing visual archive that sustains ways of seeing and producing the Middle East—as inherently violent and culturally backward—that are rooted in imperial imaginaries and political ideologies. References Alloula Malek . 1986 . The Colonial Harem , translated by Godzich Myrna...
FIGURES
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 24–47.
Published: 01 March 2019
... Europe, including feminine ideals. They see these behaviors as European and are inattentive to potential links with traditionalism. The discussion focuses on this finding in light of arguments that for women classified as Western, being on the “liberated” side of Orientalist contrasts can render gender...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 22–47.
Published: 01 November 2006
... between literary work and critical social history, producing what we may term counterhistories of the Lebanese Civil War and the Partition of India. In both of these novels, a girl upon the verge of sexual maturation sees the eruption of violence in the society around her to be fundamentally analogous...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 10–36.
Published: 01 March 2012
... general rights-based approach. At the
same time, in order to be effective, these initiatives must be connected to
the different grassroots activities in the realm of raising women’s human
and legal rights awareness.77
Notes
1. See Moghadam (2005, 2009...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (1): 1–38.
Published: 01 March 2011
... of female imagery
by a comprehensive collection of Jewish postcards.2 The Tunisian part
of this collection, as in other collections of Jewish postcards, reveals a
significant number of postcards depicting traditionally attired, remark-
ably corpulent Jewish women (see Figures 1 – 4, 7...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 122–125.
Published: 01 November 2005
... and theatre.
Th ese changes, which have been intensifi ed over the past twenty years,
are a “sign of the growing cultural homogeneity and similarities in taste
and aesthetics” (213). Rather than seeing “revivalism” as a return to the
124 JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES
past...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 19–40.
Published: 01 March 2020
... continually reminds us of the first few episodes, set during the Nasser years and documenting Zaat’s childhood. Instead of financial struggle and a decaying public infrastructure and social services, we see a family home insulated from broader political changes; the only time politics enters the intimate...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (1): 6–28.
Published: 01 March 2005
... latest book elucidates the multiple “elsewheres”
(as she calls them) of feminisms as she de-centers feminisms, helping us see
the complex choreography of feminism/s” “heres” and “beyonds.”
Middle Eastern feminism/s in the Middle East, whether secular or Is-
lamic, it seems important to stress...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 14–40.
Published: 01 November 2012
... and work there. I also conducted phone interviews
with Iranian bloggers who are widely-read but do not live in Toronto
and D.C. In order to see how Weblogistan is connected to “outside” in-
stitutions, I interviewed bloggers who worked with institutions involved
in policymaking decisions...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 71–97.
Published: 01 November 2011
... interactions evoked a tension that
overshadowed much of these men’s travels—danger and fear imbricated
alongside excitement and desire. The implications of such global en-
counters illustrate in part how these men see themselves in opposition to
their perceived local counterparts on the tours. As Dana...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 40–61.
Published: 01 November 2014
... began to see “failure” as being a “queer
art,” to use Judith Halberstam’s (2011) term, and as often having “unin-
tended consequences” (Gladwell 2013). It is these unintended consequences
to which I devote an important aspect of this paper.
However, one last variable has graced my journey...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (1): 70–89.
Published: 01 March 2011
... in the femi-
nist ideology of someone like Nasif and why certain elements of her
feminist agenda faded into the background, while others came to the
fore. As we shall see, for Nasif, local issues of education, family law, and
political/social domination—as linked to various patriarchal...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 19–57.
Published: 01 November 2010
... the
world, buying from Europe, particularly Britain, would become a na-
tional offense.23 Instead, marketing trends would steer customers toward
“national” establishments.24 Nevertheless, as we shall see, the standard
of beauty would become a fetishized, fair, slender, European woman
embodying...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 137–146.
Published: 01 March 2021
... process (see PPC n.d.-n ). The film is based on the story of Mary Danial, the sister of Mena Danial, who was killed in the Maspero Massacre in October 2011. 3 Over a two-year period the director follows Mary’s journey through the Egyptian revolution with all its ups and downs of triumph, despair...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 24–41.
Published: 01 March 2015
... Republic (see, e.g., Kian 1997 ), and the emergence of specific reformist and oppositional voices working within the system, such as Abdolkarim Soroush and Mohsen Kadivar (Ghamari-Tabrizi 2008 ). These reformers advocated for “dynamic” ( fiqh-i puya ) as opposed to traditional jurisprudence ( fiqh-i...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 117–123.
Published: 01 March 2015
... box of inquiries. 3. See hayvkahraman.com/12/extimacy.html . 2. See hayvkahraman.com/10/waraq.html . 1. See hayvkahraman.com/13/master.html . Am I a commodity? Are my paintings and figures a commodity? I pose in the nude and photograph my body to use as outlines...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 277–286.
Published: 01 July 2021
... media, installation, performance, social practice, and publishing for the past thirty years. Hashemi’s work focuses on marginalized histories. She draws on rigorous research, which she sees as an intervention in contemporary politics, often using language and text as visual and performative elements...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 41–62.
Published: 01 November 2012
... Journal of Middle East women’s studies 8:3
…And I am filled with a fierce pride in us. We are so fucking beautiful.
There are so many forces working against us seeing our own beauty…
so many voices saying that we don’t exist, that we’re ugly, that we’re
perversions...
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