...Sarah A. Kaiksow This paper explores imperial masculinity from the perspective of a British soldier who fought against the Dhofar revolution from 1968 to 1970 while serving in the British-led Army of the Sultan of Oman. Previous writings on masculinity in the context of empire have largely focused...

.... Both the brutality of the military against civilians and the collective violence targeting soldier bodies have created deep if transitory fractures in this relationship. One of the daunting tasks that awaits the ruling bloc in Turkey in the postcoup era will be the restoration of the military’s...

...Senem Kaptan Abstract Despite being exempt from compulsory military service, women have been indispensable in their roles as mothers of conscripted soldiers in the conflict between the Turkish military and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Based on in-depth interviews conducted with twenty women...

...Dana Olmert Abstract This article addresses the national-political functions of mainstream Hebrew literature, focusing on three questions: What are soldiers’ mothers in the canonical literature “allowed” to think, feel, and do, and what is considered transgressive? How has the presence of soldiers...

... Forgotten Sons: The Story of Iran’s Boy Soldiers . London : Grey Seal . Davin Anna . 1996 . Growing Up Poor: Home, School, and Street in London, 1870–1914 . London : Rivers Oram . Davis Joyce . 2004 . Martyrs: Innocence, Vengeance, and Despair in the Middle East . New York : St...

...Seçil Yılmaz Abstract Late Ottoman physicians used medical advice literature to impact syphilis transmission and treatment by cultivating men’s rather than women’s hygiene, self-care, and sexual practices. Soldiers and migrant workers were understood to be the main vectors of syphilis beginning...

...Ozum Yesiltas Abstract This study critically analyzes representations of Kurdish women fighters in US mainstream media from January 2014 to December 2018. The article argues that the narrative articulated through the presentation of Kurdish women in the US media as “badass” soldiers fighting...

...) fighters. Interviews with the mothers of soldiers will also be part of the final analysis. Focusing on these three organizations, the article answers the following questions: (1) How has the conflict between the military/paramilitary forces and oppositional organizations transformed the lives of some...

... colonialism. The events of the novel start with the gruesome scene of Mustafa s parents being brutalized by the Portuguese soldiers a Portuguese soldier strikes his father s left shoulder with a sword. His pregnant mother, during her labor, witnesses violence in icted on her husband by the colonizers...

... BOOK REVIEWS  135 in Sfinat habanot affirms, “That’s what’s so disgusting in this army: the insistence upon justice at any price, as if there really were equality in the world” (110). The story follows the compulsory two-year army period of an un- named female soldier who serves...

... on a plane of immanence that simultaneously makes it very difficult to hierarchize ethical concerns. Does Gadot being perceived as a feminist icon in the film Wonder Woman trump her being a soldier and an ardent supporter of the Israeli army? While her feminist status is contestable, her service...

...: humiliation of the detained soldiers stripped to their underwear, packed on top of each other, and held in large spaces is a sexual torture as punishment to produce docile bodies of the heteronormative nation-state (see Puar and Rai 2002 ). Within the rhetoric of unity and democracy, the embodied...

... d’état. Modern Turkey’s history has been marred by a series of coups, from the bloody to the “postmodern,” in 1960, 1971, 1980, and 1997. Military tanks rolled into the cities, fighter jets and helicopters fired ammunition. Soldiers blocked key nodes in transportation networks and attacked central state...

... soldier, faints from the heat. To the consternation of her companions, she is whisked indoors by the Pal- estinian women of the household for rest and treatment. Meanwhile, in the wedding chamber, ‘Adil is overcome by shame at his father’s capitulation to the Israeli governor’s demand...

... than soldiers at war. This essay explores the depictions of Algerian women’s resistance to French rule and how their depiction plays a central role in analyses of the aesthetic merits of the film. Among the myriad journal articles, reviews, scholarly books, and Internet buzz regarding...

... in their collective attempt to harness affective politics, Mohammed finds new ways to, as Wedeen ( 2019 ) suggests, apprehend what is supposedly known. I focus my discussion of Silvered Water on one moment that juxtaposes footage of army soldiers practicing dabke with an image of a tortured victim. The peculiar...

.... The boy embraces the symbolic world and “this new patrimony”; he begins to turn toward his father and to the subject his father wants him to be, represented by the boy’s dream and his image of a victor atop the dead bodies of the shah’s soldiers. On the other hand, despite the feeling of love...

... by peace. Women are against war” ( fig. 4 ). They were carrying posters drawing attention to the war crimes committed by soldiers against the Kurdish populations of southeastern Turkey—the very soldiers now arrested as coup plotters. The purple color of the banner split the red color of the square painted...

... include semi-biographical novels (Bazzi 2007, Hage 2006) and memoirs by former soldiers, among them two women (Beshara 2003, Sneifer 2006). In total, more than twenty books have been published by former militia personnel, most of them political leaders (Eddé 2010). In addi- tion, less...

... the screening process. As the situation escalates, so does Amiry’s irrev- erence. Her initial success at using sarcasm empowers her to take her transgressive actions even further, including leaving the airport against the soldiers’ threat to detain her. Regina Barreca (1994) asserts...