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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 237–243.
Published: 01 July 2019
..., the charges are penal, but the message is political: the Egyptian regime will not accept foreign funding directed to organizations posing a potential threat to its authority (Front Line Defenders 2016a ). For this reason the case targets organizations critical of the state’s political, economic...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 152–155.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Margot Badran 152  mn  Journal of Middle East women’s studies  10:2 Book Reviews mn Revolutionary Womanhood: Feminisms, Modernity, and the State in Nasser’s Egypt Laura Bier. New York: Stanford...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 20–45.
Published: 01 November 2005
...Mervat F. Hatem 20  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES IN THE SHADOW OF THE STATE: Changing Defi nitions of Arab Women’s “Developmental” Citizenship Rights Mervat F. Hatem  he...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 46–72.
Published: 01 November 2005
... into the interplay of religion and politics in the United States, especially after September 11, 2001, with a focus on conservative Christian conceptions of the Middle East. Copyright © 2005 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2005 46  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES RELIGIOUS...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 89–110.
Published: 01 March 2024
... documented thus far. Antigender campaigns can easily infiltrate Middle Eastern and/or Muslim-majority contexts in which feminists and queers have long struggled to transform societies, cultures, and states. In Turkey a state-led antigender movement has been unfolding, with burdensome outcomes for women...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 100–103.
Published: 01 July 2008
...Marcie J. Patton 100  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES 4:2 BOOK REVIEWS  Between Islam and the State: Th e Politics of Engagement Berna Turam. Stanford: Stanford University...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 100–102.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Alexandra Jerome Why the French Don’t Like Headscarves: Islam, the State, and Public Space , Bowen John R. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2007 . Pp. x, 290 . ISBN 978-0-691-12506-0 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2009 100  JOURNAL...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 131–134.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Neha Vora Women in Civil Society: The State, Islamism, and Networks in the UAE , Krause Wanda . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2008 . Pp. vii, 264 . ISBN 0-230-60956-3 . Copyright © 2010 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2010...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 55–88.
Published: 01 July 2005
... to the phenomenon of so-called “illegal” migration. She has been both a Raoul Wallenberg Visiting Graduate Fellow and a Lady Davis Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and she has presented her research, in English and Hebrew, at academic conferences in Israel, Europe, and the United States. Her work has...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 87–108.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Nazanin Shahrokni Despite Iran’s geopolitical importance and mounting global concerns over its domestic and international practices, the state and its diverse mechanisms of rule have been largely neglected in mainstream sociology. To understand the state’s shifting modality of power between its...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 131–133.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Annemarie van Geel A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics, and Religion in Saudi Arabia , Al-Rasheed Madawi . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . 333 pages. ISBN 978-0-521-12252-8 . Copyright © 2014 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2014...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 58–88.
Published: 01 November 2008
...Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi This article sketches a history of Iran’s early girls’ school movement and examines its origins, goals, curricular content, and relationship to the state. It revises the tendency in the existing scholarship on modern education and reform to credit the Pahlavi state...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 113–116.
Published: 01 July 2013
... into the landscape of women’s Islamic organizations. More significantly, however, while Hafez does a fair job of contextualizing religion, she is less effec- tive in contextualizing Egyptian state secularism. The liberal values of individuality, contract, and personal respon- sibility, which shape...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 31–57.
Published: 01 November 2008
...Beth Baron This article looks at the origins of the family planning program in Egypt as a case study in the history of relations between the emerging community of international donors, state officials, and local actors in the postwar period. The paper suggests that Americans and Egyptians were...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 491–493.
Published: 01 November 2017
... be reprocessed under the new Homeland Security Act, our telephones and e-mail accounts placed under surveillance, and passports returned when it was deemed appropriate. I walked out of the hall a prisoner of state, puzzling over the horizon of possibility that had pushed a well-institutionalized state to madness...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 283–306.
Published: 01 November 2020
... L. Austin’s theory of performative speech acts, the article develops a theory of the speaking state to explain the effects of political speech. Ultimately it argues that the politics of “woman making” is central to “the politics of woman killing.” Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 457–461.
Published: 01 November 2021
... appears in Savcı’s third chapter, while she focuses on transgender women’s access and relationship to urban space that gets restricted and controlled through transphobic interpretations of ambiguous legislation, police maltreatment and extortion, and state-condoned vigilante intimidation in areas...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 225–245.
Published: 01 July 2016
... regulate sex/gender transgression. I argue that this institutional fixation develops specific proximities and forms of touch by the state on (and in) the bodies of trans women and gay men, which in turn plays a pivotal role in the institutional production of sexual difference and normative regulation...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11575522.
Published: 10 January 2025
...Merve Kütük-Kuriş [email protected] Anti-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey: State, Society, and Gender in the Early Republic . Sevgi Adak . Tauris , 2022 . 222 pages. isbn 9781784537920 . Copyright © 2025 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2025 REVIEW Anti...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 107–134.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Frances S. Hasso Since the 1980s, an explosion in state, international, and nongovernmental campaigns and programs propose to increase women’s rights and protections in Arab countries. Women and women’s rights activists often invite and appeal to male-dominated states to regulate, intervene...