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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 238–259.
Published: 01 July 2022
... and the concept of politics of location to argue two things: first, Persepolis, as a place, is not equivalent to Iran nor representative of universal values but is a kind of space socially constructed by the author, who borrows the idea from Aryanist discourse. This raises a pedagogical warning for teaching...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 301–310.
Published: 01 July 2022
... . http://gate.ahram.org.eg/News/2455682.aspx . Boutrous Magda . 2017 . “ Place and Tactical Innovation in Social Movements: The Emergence of Egypt’s Anti-harassment Groups .” Theoretical Sociology Journal 46 , no. 6 : 543 – 74 . El-Ammar Maya . 2020 . “ The ‘Fairmont’ Case...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 78–101.
Published: 01 July 2012
... globally. This paper looks at the consequences of Israeli policy and changing social norms on the Palestinian minority in Israel through the prism of female Palestinian activism in Israel’s economy. In particular, it examines the causes, consequences, and changes in the labor force participation...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 108–135.
Published: 01 November 2013
... of such social groupings is scarcely questioned in these works, which focus mainly on the interpretation of practices as political or subversive. In this article, I emphasize the collective and public aspect of transgressions in order to show how transgressive acts participate in shaping collective...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 112–139.
Published: 01 July 2005
... professor of economics at Drew University. Copyright © 2005 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2005 112 JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES
IS PAID WORK THE (ONLY) ANSWER?
NEOLIBERALISM, ARAB WOMEN’S WELL-BEING,
AND THE SOCIAL CONTRACT...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 221–223.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Claire Oueslati-Porter Industrial Sexuality: Gender, Urbanization, and Social Transformation in Egypt . Hanan Hammad . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2016 . 279 pages. isbn 9781477310724. Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 127–130.
Published: 01 November 2005
...Asma Abdel Halim Islam and Social Policy , Heyneman Stephen P. , ed. Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press , 2004 . 218 pp. Copyright © 2005 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2005 BOOK REVIEWS 127
(26-30), one...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 1–30.
Published: 01 July 2007
... for economic independence, challenging the very concept of namus (honor), and at times calling into question the value of the institution of marriage. The column often appeared in proximity to reports of youth suicides. Thus the column and its context allow us to examine the social tensions produced...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 129–131.
Published: 01 November 2007
... to use the word “indigenous” to describe the non-Russian in-
habitants of Central Asia who would later be branded “Uzbek.” The term
and concept of “indigeneity” have been the subject of much discussion
in the social sciences as questions have arisen about the unidimensional
relationship between...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 24–49.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Nahda Shehada Based on 14 months of fieldwork, this paper examines the influence of social norms, individual agency, and historical contingency on the practice of House of Obedience ( bayt al-ta‘a ) in the shari‘a courts of the Gaza Strip. It argues that the text of Islamic family law is only one...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 96–101.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Kavita Philip The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt , Shakry Omnia El . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2007 . Pp. xii, 328 . ISBN 978-0-8047-5567-2 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2009...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 1–45.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Lila Abu-Lughod Rather than arguing about whether “Muslim women” do or do not have rights, I suggest that we begin from the premise that the concept of, and the practices around, “Muslim women’s rights” have an active social life today that can and should be studied ethnographically. The kinds...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 86–114.
Published: 01 July 2006
... public debates that preceded, accompanied, and followed the new Family Law; these debates involved practically all public actors ranging from social, to economic, religious, and political actors and, along with the Family Law, shows that women’s feminist ideas and associations were inserting themselves...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 1–11.
Published: 01 November 2008
...
INTRODUCTION
Innovative Women:
Unsung Pioneers of Social Change
Nikki R. Keddie
his special issue is based on papers presented at a workshop on New
TIdeas for Middle Eastern Societies: Analyzing Women’s Writings, held...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (2): 219–238.
Published: 01 July 2024
... Women’s Studies 2024 #MosqueMeToo movement sexual assault Muslim women #MeToo movement social media Sexual violence cuts across class, age, and religious and ethnic groups and revolves around domination across these categories (Armstrong, Gleckman-Krut, and Johnson 2018 ). Despite sexual...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11412091.
Published: 19 September 2024
...Claudia Yaghoobi Abstract Two months after the initial announcement of COVID-19, the World Health Organization referred to the pathogen as a pandemic, and by March 2020 large gatherings were canceled as new “social distancing” measures were issued. Statements about the pandemic proliferated...
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in From Guerrilla Girls to Zainabs: Reassessing the Figure of the “Militant Woman” in the Iranian Revolution
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Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 5. A young girl holds a “white book” pamphlet of the writings of Che Guevara in one hand and a carnation in the other. Published in Tehran Mosavvar , January 19, 1979 [29 Dey 1357]. Siagzar Berelian Collection, Box 12, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Faedah M. Totah The public visibility and political activity of women remain contentious social issues in the Middle East. Where women are encouraged by the state to be politically active, their ensuing visibility is perceived as threatening to the local male-dominated social order, which in turn...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 344–366.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Alainna Liloia Abstract This article explores the relationship between gender and modern nation building in Qatar, with attention to how Qatari women negotiate the challenges of modern development and social change. The article analyzes Qatar’s strategic use of gendered nation-building initiatives...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 244–264.
Published: 01 July 2017
... and behavior in their class-based social circles. Thus we argue that social class and habitus are important for the norms of masculine respectability with a marked difference between lower-class/traditional middle-class and professional middle-class milieus. While family-dependent gay men in the lower class...
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