... domain as an expression of collective traumas and silenced pasts, contribute to peace building in Turkey? Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 motherhood performance strategic neutrality citizenship violence maternal peace politics of emotion Women...

... for emancipation. Yet, writing by women is precisely that: a strategic and transgressive act that increasingly permits women’s voices to enter the larger public sphere despite the multiple filters seeking to neutralize its subversive impulses. The subversive potential comes from an attempt...

... on characters and plot lines) rather than informed by discourse analysis or film theory. The book also includes an informative discussion of the “Group of Seven” activists and the decision of some of their members, such as Mona Zulficar, to make “strategic alliances” (not without tension...

... practices to locate nuances in some judicial practices where female judges adjudicate in a gender-neutral way by applying the constitution and international conventions. These findings are new and relevant to other countries of the Maghreb, also characterized by legal pluralism. Women judges’ mobilization...

..., because these spaces, like most, discipline voices ideologically and sonically. Audibility is not a neutral achievement but an ideologically structured terrain that shapes voices and regulates whether and how they are heard and recognized. Voices routinely have ambiguous and even contradictory effects...

.... This article provides an analysis of Amiry’s strategic use of humor as a way of resisting Israeli authority, articulating ethical and practical dilemmas resulting from the occupation, alleviating her sense of anxiety, and establishing social connections with others. Nadine Sinno is Assistant Professor...

... women’s interests, which is not an accepted maxim of most Marxist revolutionary movements. While struggling to attain power, vanguard parties have mostly muted or marginalized women’s strategic and practical gender interests. Then, after seizing control of the state, other priorities...

...) argues in her article that women in different societies strategize within “concrete constraints,” social rules, and household regimes and that each strategy has different gender implications. In the Middle East and other “classic patriarchy” societies, families were historically...

... their own expertise, and my recent research may be helpful in explaining why a particular constituency—youth—chose to risk their lives and lead or join the rebellion. In addition, I raise questions about why young women have vocally and strategically supported the uprising and how...

... terms, we see that learning how to be men has less to do with gender in the Arab cultural context and more to do with social and political values. She later bemoans the loss of what Nouri Gana ( 2010 : 106–7) has posited as a gender-neutral notion of manhood ( rujula ) that carries personal, social...

... of his/my jokes. I practiced and prac- ticed talking without moving my mouth. I became very practiced at holding my face rigid, expres- sionless, neutral—not beautiful...

.... Okin contests this position by arguing that the “liberal idea of the non-intervention of the state into the domestic realm, rather than maintaining neutrality, in fact reinforces existing inequalities within that realm” (Okin 1991; see also Brown 1992, 1995). A recent generation of scholars...

..., and brought about a transformation in the legal codes toward a more gender-neutral and less sexist composition (Arat and Pamuk 2019 ; Diner and Toktaş 2010 ). Meanwhile, the LGBTI and queer associations began to emerge in the 1990s, striving to change public discourse and institutional practices toward...

... of the nahda and reveals Karam’s revolutionary engagement with gender politics within the hybridized cultural space of the mahjar . Karam’s deliberate and strategic foray into novel writing was a bold decision, especially given the public controversy that surrounded the newly emerging genre in Arabic...

... to weave itself into the feminist fabric of the Arab world. Although Ashkenazi elite feminists in Israel are known for their peace activism and human rights work, from the Mizrahi perspective their critique and activism are limited, if not counterproductive. The Ashkenazi feminists have strategically...

..., neither the European nor the colonial could remain a neutral presence in feminist discourses. 72  mn  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES  7:1 Rather, the reality of the power relationship implicit in colonialism became yet another field of negotiation and contestation for a feminist...

... to as “moderates” to distinguish them from ISIS. Moreover, the designation justifies US support for such groups. 2. According to Graeme Wood, the magazine is named after the city of Dabiq, near Aleppo. ISIS “celebrated madly when (at great cost) it conquered Dabiq’s strategically unimportant plains...

... because I did not intend to deceive veiled interviewees or neutralize our sartorial and ideological differences. I followed the general cultural expectations to the extent possible, however, by wearing fashionable yet nonrevealing clothes. The fifteen women interviewed ranged between twenty and forty...

... of these women (Seymour-Jorn 2002). Elsewhere, I have argued that Nimat al-Bihiri, who also focuses on women and other 98  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES marginalized social actors, has made strategic use of the divide between standard and colloquial Arabic and the rich body of proverbs...

... are not suggesting that studies of migration must apply a “gender neutral” approach (if such a method can be said to exist) or that focusing on exploitation unique to female migrants is in any way a problematic choice. Migration is visibly and structurally gendered and engenders distinct types...