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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 264–266.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Adi Kuntsman Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture . Lavie Smadar . New York : Berghahn , 2014 . 216 pages. isbn 9781782382225 Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 Smadar Lavie’s Wrapped...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 45–67.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Jessica Marie Newman Abstract This article interrogates how employees at single-mother associations in Morocco construct the mère célibataire (single mother) as an archetypal, aspirational figure. Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork (2013–15), this article traces how counselors work...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 294–303.
Published: 01 July 2021
... call social services and the police to give the child an identity and convince the mother to keep her child. 8. Personal interview with El Baz in Casablanca, January 2017. The ASF was created in 1985 by Aicha Echanna to defend the rights of single mothers and their children. It is still the most...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 71–86.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Zimu Niu Abstract This article discusses a model of male-female relation promoted by the Egyptian writer and activist Nawal El Saadawi. El Saadawi argued that man and woman are born exactly the same: not only do they resemble each other, but they constitute together a single entity that is humanity...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 41–61.
Published: 01 March 2020
.... Restricting itself to politics given this standpoint, a study of Jewish women’s participation in the illegal Zionist and Communist movements of Iraq reveals that racializations, rather than a single racialization, occurred—a racial reality no other scholarship provides for Iraq’s Jewish community. Because...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 306–324.
Published: 01 November 2015
... divorced, separated, and widowed Palestinian single mothers in Israel. In contrast to claims in most existing scholarship, all of the women turned to nonfamilial sources of support to deal with family and community regulation, restrictions, and stigmatization and to acquire resources. Level of surveillance...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 3–23.
Published: 01 March 2019
... character of nahda literary culture, as readers and writers scattered across four continents interacted in the textual “spaces” of the rapidly expanding print culture in the Arabic-speaking world. As a single player within an international network of Syro-Lebanese women writers, Karam’s foundational...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 209–231.
Published: 01 July 2023
...,” or “Egyptian women.” Second, literature explaining the dynamics of authoritarian durability has mainly focused on what is institutional , for instance, the army, legislature, and political parties. This article focuses on a single woman as part of the toolbox authoritarian leaders use to maintain power...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 12–35.
Published: 01 March 2022
... white society, women are studied as “subaltern whites,” mainly as prostitutes or in the context of miscegenation (Fischer-Tiné 2009 ; Levine 2003 ). Studies have also addressed emigration of single women from Britain (Chilton 2007 ; Hammerton 1979 ; Harper 2010 ). Relatively few studies have...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 292–313.
Published: 01 November 2018
... result of a DNA test as evidence of an unlawful sexual relationship and sends the mother to prison (Goodlett 2016 , 29). More important, it is difficult for a single-mother claimant in Morocco to demonstrate that the biological father of her child promised to marry her or to benefit from the DNA...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 21–44.
Published: 01 November 2007
... on IVF.
Donor insemination, although entailing a modest user payment,
is also available to any woman, including single and lesbian women, as
part of the public health care system.8 Technologies can be combined
unrestrictedly, i.e., IVF can be applied with donor gametes, and since
26...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 267–290.
Published: 01 November 2023
... themselves are created by overlaying single images, and each composite image is presented as part of a diptych or triptych. Bouderbala’s images conceal and reveal the female body, remarking on the multiple social veils worn by Tunisian women. Najah Zarbout also deploys doubling in artworks from the drawing...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 383–385.
Published: 01 November 2019
... and memories. The former includes European women who fought with the FLN and later took Algerian citizenship. Acknowledging the absence of a predominantly Arabophone majority, Vince urges readers to question the notion of one single representative image of an “authentic” Algerian identity. Despite...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (1): 126–129.
Published: 01 March 2006
... consists
of a single regionalized entry on Canada, also seems unnecessary. Read-
ers should be prepared to skim the contents for multiple related entries
and to pay attention to topical overlaps.
Careful readers will doubtless find far more gaps and overlaps than I
have identified...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11412182.
Published: 19 September 2024
... rappers like Stormy, Tagne, ElGrandeToto, and Don Bigg. The year 2020 marked the release of four singles, and she was named one of the hundred most in uential women in the world by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC 2020). Her rst of cial single, KickOff, has 2.1 million views on YouTube. In her...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 108–111.
Published: 01 July 2008
....
Th e entry on Tanzania focuses on teen sexual activity and the use
of induced abortions to resolve early pregnancies of unmarried girls
engaged in transactional sex with older men. Th e entry is based on a
single published article that discusses induced abortions as a method...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 113–116.
Published: 01 July 2013
... on a daily basis by Egyptians—rising food
prices, stagnating wages, unemployment, and corruption—there is not a
single mention of the significant macroeconomic and social transforma-
tions that occurred during the Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak eras. If
Hafez’s project is to chart the forces...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 453–457.
Published: 01 November 2017
... challenged disciplinary borders and individual authorship. She engaged multiple contexts, texts, and voices syncretically within a single page, which one reviewer described as “maddening” though “inspired” (Gelfand 1993 , 20). Harlow refused linear and hierarchical methods of reading and analysis. She read...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 460.
Published: 01 November 2016
... Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 Erratum for Adi Kuntsman, review of Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture , by Smadar Lavie, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 12, no. 2 (2016): 264–66 . On page...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 63–79.
Published: 01 March 2015
... activity they engage in while they are single and young, before womanhood. Their narratives suggest that inhabiting girlhood does not free them from the binds of womanhood, however. The physical maturity of their bodies and ways of dressing, talking, and behaving often made it difficult to sustain...
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