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Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 1–20.
Published: 01 November 2007
...Marcia C. Inhorn In the Middle East, many men who experience reproductive difficulties within marriage end up undergoing a risky form of male genital surgery called “varicocelectomy.” Promoted by urological surgeons as a way to enhance fertility, varicocelectomy is a form of men's embodied...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 359–386.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Mehrdad Alipour Abstract Muslim jurists have issued several fatwas (Islamic legal opinions) permitting gender-confirming surgery (GCS) for various groups of intersex and/or transgender people. However, these fatwas have been critiqued for conceiving of intersex and transgender individuals...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 31–51.
Published: 01 July 2014
... Ruhollah Khomeini published a fatwa declaring that there is no religious restriction on sex reassignment surgery for hermaphrodites. In 1985, he issued an appendage to this fatwa to include transsexuals suffering from gender dysphoria. This reissuance impelled the process that culminated in new state...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 79–86.
Published: 01 March 2020
... writing their bodies and destigmatizing disability. There was a new experimental surgery. It was not meant to be performed on all patients, it was reserved for cases that really needed help, and people who could actually afford it. The surgery was performed by an Indian doctor who claimed to have...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 221–223.
Published: 01 July 2015
... of psychological and psychiatric approaches practiced at different centers and clinics. She also presents differing religious opinions that seek to justify the legalization of sex reassignment surgery. For instance, in chapter 5 Najmabadi recounts her fascinating discussion with Ayatollah Kariminia, one...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 346–350.
Published: 01 November 2020
... identities at a significant time in the Middle East, the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. During this period new nations were forming, which led to the creation of hybrid national and gendered identities. Within this context, representing the body after surgery, nude, or adorned in various...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 416–422.
Published: 01 November 2019
... to reclaim their “technical virginity” (Özyeğin 2015 ). The primary method used is hymenoplasty, or the restoration of the hymen to allow for the possibility of bleeding, sometimes coupled with vaginoplasty, an additional surgery that provides a feeling of vaginal tightness during penile-vaginal intercourse...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 255–258.
Published: 01 July 2018
... the Turkish Constitution allows sex reassignment if a person is infertile, many fertile individuals acquire hospital documentation declaring them infertile to allow reassignment surgery (Can et al. 2011 ). Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018 This essay discusses...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 105–133.
Published: 01 March 2022
... with successful surgeries with undersupplies, cases of unusual diseases, places and people visited, anecdotes heard, and so on, alongside comments and reflections. Conscious of their mission as a state endeavor to showcase benevolence and solidarity with the developing world, the doctors present their activities...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 152–173.
Published: 01 July 2018
... of a physician. In 1999 Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei issued a fatwa permitting gender reassignment surgery for intersex and male-to-female transsexuals. The current paradigm for interpreting these judgments suggests that Muslim jurists permit sex changes because each person has a “true” sex that fits within...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 225–245.
Published: 01 July 2016
... vaginal construction surgery and was telling me about her latest visit to one of the public education and research hospitals in Istanbul to get her vagina checked. Seval looked impatient and excited, because, as she articulated, her two-and-a-half-year-long painful and meticulous medicolegal gender...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 135–137.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., given the rising marital age and the expectation for a substantial initial capital for the newlyweds. She then examines virginity reconstruction surgery, female genital mutilation, Internet porn, ʿurfi (or temporary) marriage, and more. As a writer and broadcaster, her methodology is not always...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (1): 105–127.
Published: 01 March 2014
... media, denounced on Oprah, mentioned in every lec-
ture on gender and development or international human rights problems,
and considered de rigueur for the syllabi of political science courses on
women (see Public Policy Advisory Network on Female Genital Surgeries
in Africa (2012) for examples...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 240–255.
Published: 01 July 2021
.... Dalal does not express hopes or dreams for the future; her education does not move her in the direction of a job; her relationship does not point toward marriage; and by the latter half of the book she even stops mentioning her desire for cosmetic surgery to correct the scars of her stroke. Yet movement...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 136–139.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of exercising power and control. The obsessive attention
to conspicuous consumption, show-off home décor, beauty, outward ap-
pearances, vanity, and cosmetic surgery is a marker of Iranian American
women in the United States and to some degree in Iran (mainly during
Mohammad Reza Shah’s...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 195–218.
Published: 01 July 2017
... surgeries, arguing that when caesareans, like any surgery, are performed in the absence of medical need, there can be unwanted complications that put women at unnecessary risk (Sonay 2012 ). Others, in contrast, argue that women have the right to choose how they want to give birth. Restrictions...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 331–336.
Published: 01 November 2015
... reassignment surgery (SRS) as yet another coercive mechanism of the Iranian state and said that none of the people she interviewed would have undergone SRS had they lived outside Iran. They did so, she contended, because they were pressured by a society and a state that punish homosexuality and tolerate...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 181–202.
Published: 01 July 2016
... (International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery) . 2014 . ISAPS International Survey on Aesthetic/Cosmetic Procedures Performed in 2013. www.isaps.org/Media/Default/global-statistics/2014%20ISAPS%20Results%20(3).pdf (accessed December 11, 2014 ). Jones Geoffrey . 2010 . Beauty Imagined...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 72–95.
Published: 01 March 2023
... vested interests at the center of my work, to see the exploitative impacts of representing trans communities in Iran, and to reflect on the advantageous and self-actualizing effect it would produce for me as the researcher. I considered whether forgoing research on sex reassignment surgery in Iran...
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Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 23–52.
Published: 01 July 2009
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surgeries, the interviewees were generally willing to talk and were oft en
quite loquacious.
Interviews were conducted in a small private room on the clinic’s
periphery and lasted 20 to 90 minutes each. Th e interviewer was a Jew-
ish woman, trained as a clinical psychologist...
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