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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...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11412026.
Published: 19 September 2024
... in Iran constitute the central themes of Claudia Yaghoobi s Love on Hold: Social Distancing and Relationships in Early Iranian COVID-19 Experiences. This study investigates the effects social distancing measures in Iran had on personal relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic. Like Friedland and Afary...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 145–174.
Published: 01 November 2009
... erent ways within a
particular social location and how the mobilization of gender within
long-distance nationalisms can be a site of both constraint and em-
powerment for women. In this sense, my research calls attention to a
de-territorialized experience of gender that cannot...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 203–224.
Published: 01 July 2016
..., physical distance facilitated forms of social interaction that made it possible for my interlocutors to maintain a sense of emotional detachment toward the surrogates. How, then, did intimacy change when personal encounters were suddenly within reach? To answer this question, I shift the focus to my...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 147.
Published: 01 March 2010
... practice of
“comfort mothering,” for example, met the emotive needs of a diaspora
engaging with a homeland war from a distance, and expanded the social
codes of mothering beyond the domain of extended kin.
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Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 423–426.
Published: 01 November 2023
... in the late 1990s, are presented more as a historical context than a detailed historical narrative. Despite its brevity, “History” successfully introduces critical debates and shifts in the broader Kurdish freedom movement and mindfully contextualizes a rather detailed and rich recent social history...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 181–202.
Published: 01 July 2016
... may admit to one’s intimate secrets or allow to touch one’s body in intimate ways and places, albeit without any further social consequences. Intimacy here is a form of closeness in settings removed from public display, existing not in spite of social distance but because of it. In the salons...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 87–93.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Yasmine Nachabe Taan Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2020 Lebanese human rights activists see the Kafala system as a staggering social problem, which many have likened to a system of slavery. Currently supported by the Ministry of Labor, migrant workers...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 197–219.
Published: 01 July 2021
... the siege of Homs (2011–14). Throughout, Mohammed narrates his emotional journey as a filmmaker forced into exile as well as his long-distance working relationship with Simav. By working through gigabytes of amateur recordings and spaces of victimization that have inundated social media feeds...
FIGURES
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 63–79.
Published: 01 March 2015
... . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Desmond Jane C. , ed. 1997 . Meaning in Motion: New Cultural Studies of Dance . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Droeber Julia . 2005 . Dreaming of Change: Young Middle-Class Women and Social Transformation in Jordan . Leiden...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (1): 149–163.
Published: 01 March 2014
... years; my ideas about Islam and Islamic
movements and women and social movements; my challenges to other’s
work on the Middle East and Sudan; my use of personalized methodolo-
gies, especially oral histories in various forms; my love of working with
people, especially Sudanese; my refusal...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 139–144.
Published: 01 November 2005
... draws informants primarily
from the social network of her family. In each chapter, she presents the
dominant discourse concerning each fi eld of meaning and then discusses
counter discourses, arriving fi nally at an evaluation of the relative pow-
ers of the various discourses and explaining how...
Journal Article
Kurdish Life in Contemporary Turkey: Migration, Gender, and Ethnic Identity by Anna Grabolle-Çeliker
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 114–116.
Published: 01 March 2015
...-Çeliker’s work reveals relatively unexplored dimensions of Kurdish social life, such as urbanization, de-ethnicization, individualization, and religion-centered living, and consequently it will surely be a frequent reference for postwar Kurdish scholarship. The book also contributes to gender studies...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 103–116.
Published: 01 March 2010
... women exploring issues of gender, faith, social justice, and human rights across historical and cultural boundaries. I argue that the imaginative recovery of Farrokhzad by Iranian immigrant women writers and artists not only complicates the West’s frequently reductive contemporary representations...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 12–35.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of the profession’s trajectories during the interwar years. By complicating British nurses’ status within professional and social hierarchies, it also aims at dismantling the so far monolithic image of the cadre of British formal agents in Mandate Palestine. The article is based on nurses’ letters, the records...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 26–49.
Published: 01 March 2023
...), an autonomous Muslim women’s organization known for its commitment to feminist precepts, the BKP was heavily targeted in the official discourse and on social media. Moreover, members of Havle, a Muslim feminist organization founded in 2018, who participated in the march in Istanbul, were accused on social media...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 43–68.
Published: 01 March 2024
... office at Vanderbilt University while getting ready for my meeting with two Kurdish American activist women, Ajna and Bisma. 1 I got to know them as a result of intersecting activist circles for social justice. They arrived as young children to the United States along with many thousands of other...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 4–31.
Published: 01 July 2013
..., and colonialism without considering the ways in which
the social power attached to the typically male privilege of reading and
writing manifests itself in Musa’s text. Badran, a historian of the Middle
East, devotes the most attention to the relationship to written language
by dedicating two paragraphs...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 69–88.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., as a second-generation child of an immigrant family, contribute to Kurdish literature and Kurdish literary expression. Khadivi’s trilogy, this study argues, is the product of a specific historical, cultural, and social textuality. While heavily influenced by Sigmund Freud and Lacan, Kristeva...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 56–85.
Published: 01 July 2007
... Palestinian
culture. Thus, the image tells us not only that the Palestinians were “there”
at the time the photo was taken, but that they were there as Palestinians
with cultural artifacts and practices that define them as a people.
Given the important cultural and social work that takes place...
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