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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 366–394.
Published: 01 November 2021
... . 1979 . Gender Advertisements . London : Macmillan . Hamamsy Chafika . 2005 . Zamalek: The Changing Life of a Cairo Elite, 1850–1945 . Cairo : American University in Cairo Press . Huistra Hieke . 2019 . “ Standardizing Slimness: How Body Weight Quantified Beauty...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 89–118.
Published: 01 November 2008
...Masserat Amir-Ebrahimi Since 1979, Iranian society has been living under a triple set of standards of urf , sharia, and modernity. An important field of superposition and contradiction among these standards is the gender issue and how to control women and their sexuality in the private...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 157–178.
Published: 01 July 2019
... is threefold. In addition to embracing the multiple subjectivity of the interlocutors, it moves beyond the standard political-economic approach that generally informs marriage studies in the Middle East and dismantles monolithic perceptions of Middle Eastern kin networks. Copyright © 2019 by the Association...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 1–30.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Katja Žvan Elliott This article examines the rarely talked about subtleties of Moroccan reform in the realm of women’s rights and its inadequate fulfillment of obligations to international human rights standards. The Preamble to Morocco’s post-Arab Spring 2011 constitution follows the example...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 6–30.
Published: 01 March 2008
... standards of equal rights feminism, the Women’s Party contributed to an enduring aspect of Iranian culture in which national conversations imagine a global audience. The thesis rests on two elements: 1) the use of recently published Iranian document sets and a previously unused press source to illustrate...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 10–36.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Bettina Dennerlein This paper focuses on competing appropriations of international women’s rights standards in the framework of the Moroccan Equity and Reconciliation Commission (ERC) and its follow-up projects. I argue that, even if the ERC’s gender approach has been introduced as part...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 376–394.
Published: 01 November 2017
... difficulty measuring up to the standards of being mastura , a morally and sexually protected member of society. Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2017 interwar Egypt theft by women status respectability working-class On May 10, 1938, four women and a teenage...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 36–58.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., this article considers missionary nurses’ efforts to cultivate international nursing standards in Iran between 1916, when they opened their first nursing school, and 1947, when they launched an institute of higher education for nurses. From the outset their mission was to develop the nursing profession...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 274–276.
Published: 01 July 2021
..., and the rights of the LGBTQI+ community into public debate. With the uniformity and anonymity created by the absence of irises and the use of blue, yellow, red, and black, Fasiki’s image also exceeds the context of the MENA region to challenge dominant and racialized beauty and body standards. The central...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (1): 126–129.
Published: 01 March 2006
..., standard Arabic, French,
and English may determine social status. This chapter ends with a dis-
cussion of how women face resistance when entering politics and the
public sphere even while their role as activists in civil society takes on a
growing importance.
Chapter two examines the formal...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 96–107.
Published: 01 November 2005
... activists made clear that
cultural/religious customs harmful to women and in violation of inter-
national human rights standards could change like any other customs.
Women’s human rights activists pointed out that cultural and religious
customs have evolved in every part of the world and insisted...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 95–97.
Published: 01 March 2019
... from the more personal Arab existentialism of her male contemporaries. Hanna acclaims Samman’s uses of existentialism in the context of war to speak to the uniform dissolution of the human while avoiding “standard feminist plotlines” (60). Hanna then explores critical realism in novels Sahar...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (2): 239–241.
Published: 01 July 2024
... and analysis. A number of key concepts are treated as universal and standard. In her well-known study on gender and digital activism in the Middle East, Annabelle Sreberny frames activism and its relation to public contention through Chantal Mouffe’s notion of the “political.” This could have been an area...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 395–415.
Published: 01 November 2017
...-class Ashkenazis 2 in a context of Ashkenazi political, economic, and cultural hegemony in Israel. Rather than being “extreme,” Women for the Temple activists are successful because they enact normative Ashkenazi standards of nationalism and religiosity, including as it is influenced by feminist...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 March 2008
... of the Women’s Party were holding Iran up to international
standards of women’s rights, citing the San Francisco Peace Confer-
ence declaration in favor of “complete equality between the sexes,” the
Vatican’s support for women’s suff rage, and the Allies’ demand that oc-
cupied Japan grant women suff rage...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 249–257.
Published: 01 July 2023
... on, means simply that fundamental rights are not respected, particularly for non-Muslim Moroccans, who are obliged to comply with these standards” (Fasiki 2019 : 48). The book employs short sequences and simple yet provocative images. All these elements are essential to the narrative’s progression...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., consumers began to view appliances as standard (if aspirational) parts of a modern home and kitchen. “Every Young Woman Awaits the Prince of Her Dreams,” a 1949 article on marriage in the popular illustrated magazine Akhir Saʿa ( Up to the Minute ), listed a “frigidaire” and a propane stove as part...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 283–305.
Published: 01 November 2015
... local women’s expert knowledge and expanded the legal definitions of rape. The fourth section presents four case studies of women’s divorce suits to illustrate shifting epistemologies and standards in expert witnessing. By the end of this period, reformist legislation expanded divorce rights for Muslim...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (1): 95–121.
Published: 01 March 2006
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of standard, colloquial, and Qur’anic Arabic allow her to demonstrate
a competent literary voice. This literary voice helps to authorize both
her treatment of the lives of women at the bottom of the socioeconomic
ladder and her damning critique of the impact of social norms on the
lives and psyches...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 115–136.
Published: 01 July 2006
... such as the International Council of
Museums (ICOM).1 Based in Paris, the umbrella organization represents
the profession, sets standards, offers expertise, and hosts regional and af-
filiate committees, of which ICOMArab serves the MENA countries. One
such service is a newsletter focusing on relevant...
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