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The Argument From Silence: Morocco’s Truth Commission and Women Political Prisoners
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 73–95.
Published: 01 November 2005
... Women’s Studies 2005 SUSAN SLYOMOVICS 73
THE ARGUMENT FROM SILENCE:
MOROCCO’S TRUTH COMMISSION AND
WOMEN POLITICAL PRISONERS
Susan Slyomovics
Th ere is a diff erence, of course, between prison and death...
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Contested Meaning of the Veil and Political Ideologies of Iranian Regimes
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 75–98.
Published: 01 November 2007
... political regimes have assigned to the veil meanings corresponding to their own ideologies. Through imposed unveiling and re-veiling, these regimes have constructed an ideal image of Iranian women and in turn of Iran as a modern or an Islamic country. This essentialized singular image has led...
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Chaos as a Political Strategy of Governance
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 486–488.
Published: 01 November 2017
... against Jews have also increased, though political leaders, especially in the White House, have made concerted statements condemning anti-Semitism. They overlook the responsibility that inciting hate affects all of us. Attacks on Mexicans, immigrants, African American youth—these pilloried targets...
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Putting Messianic Femininity into Zionist Political Action: The Race-Class and Ideological Normativity of Women for the Temple in Jerusalem
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 395–415.
Published: 01 November 2017
... are economically, racially, and politically privileged as predominantly lower middle-class to middle-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...
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Gendering Political Agency in the Maghreb
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 88–92.
Published: 01 March 2016
... the importance of comparative analysis, and open several new lines of academic research on the Maghreb. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh’s Ideal Refugees explores a different type of female political agency. The prominence of women as “ideal refugees” in the Polisario camps has been crucial for the political...
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The Centrality and Marginalization of Women in the Political Discourse of Arab Nationalists and Islamists
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 8–34.
Published: 01 July 2006
... the issue of women unavoidable. In the context of a cross-ideological oppositional alliance in Yemen that has been largely fostered by the conferences, this enduring tension over women seems to have created just enough space to push the issue of women’s right to representation as political candidates...
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The Politics of Group Weddings in Palestine: Political and Gender Tensions
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 36–53.
Published: 01 November 2009
... become a site of conflict between the two main political rivals, Hamas and Fateh, and they also have implications for gender relations. Women are not passive observers of the conflict between the two parties and the new traditions and rituals these parties are inventing. Women are actively involved...
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"Our Life is Prison": The Triple Captivity of Wives and Mothers of Palestinian Political Prisoners
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 54–80.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Rita Giacaman; Penny Johnson In focus groups and individual interviews with the wives and mothers of Palestinian political prisoners, we find that their narratives describe a triple captivity—of the Israeli colonial system, the Israeli prison, and the post-Oslo Palestinian political landscape...
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Women, Freedom, and Agency in Religious Political Movements: Reflections From Women Activists in Shas and the Islamic Movement in Israel
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 81–107.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Lihi Ben Shitrit Women’s activism in conservative religious-political movements poses a challenge to liberal feminism. Why do women participate in great numbers in political organizations that seem to limit women’s freedom and equality? My work with women activists in the Islamic Movement...
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The Political Economy of Patriarchy in the Global South
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 232–234.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Valentine M. Moghadam Reference Walby Sylvia . 2004 . “ The European Union and Gender Equality: Emergent Varieties of Gender Regime .” Social Politics 11 , no. 1 : 4 – 29 . Is there anything to criticize? The book jumps over several decades of urbanization, nuclearization...
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“Gender Justice” versus “Gender Equality”: Elite Women’s Framing for Political Representation in Iran and Turkey
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 141–166.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Mona Tajali Abstract Much of the literature on women’s-rights activism in the Muslim world presents such activism as employing discourses either of egalitarianism (secular) or of complementarianism (religious). This article analyzes the recent framing of demands for women’s right to political...
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The Political in Iraq’s Thawra Teshreen: Gender, Space, and Emancipation
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 401–422.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Zahra Ali Abstract This article explores the meaning and significance of the political in the October 2019 uprising in Iraq, commonly called Thawra Teshreen, through the lens of gender, space, and emancipation. It looks at the spatiality of the protests, considering both discursive and material...
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Women’s Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 296–298.
Published: 01 July 2022
... . 2006 . “ Palestinian NGOs since Oslo: From NGO Politics to Social Movements? ” In The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel, 1993–2005 , edited by Beinin Joel and Stein Rebecca L. , 84 – 000 . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Hasso Frances . 2005...
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in A Delicate Balancing Act: Women’s Rights and US Military Intervention in the Arab World
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Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 4. The negative effect of Islamist strength on women’s political rights in the Arab world increases as US troop deployments in the MENA region rise, 1980–2010.
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Women’s Political Representation in Iran and Turkey: Demanding a Seat at the Table
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 114–116.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Azadeh Kian Despite these points, Women’s Political Representation in Iran and Turkey provides us with the opinions and efforts of several women activists directly or indirectly involved in political processes. Through her encounters, interviews, and observations, Tajali shares with her...
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Politics of Intimacy in Turkey: A Distraction from “Real” Politics?
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 112–121.
Published: 01 March 2016
... political landscape of the twenty-first century. Erdoğan’s comments are part of a contentious array of government discourses and policies around gender, sexuality, reproduction, and family developed particularly in the later years of conservative Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party...
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Islamic Feminism in Kuwait: The Politics and Paradoxes by Alessandra L. González
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 161–163.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Jane Bristol-Rhys book reviews mn 161
over time. Reading the volume in companion with works by Fida Adely,
Nadine Naber, and Saba Mahmood that specifically deconstruct gender
and agency as political categories would heighten a critical and needed...
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The Politics of Love: Sexuality, Gender, and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama by Rebecca Joubin
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 224–226.
Published: 01 July 2015
... gender as an optic for social progress and political opposition. Important as these perspectives are for our understanding of gender and cultural nationalism in the Middle East, especially in terms of what is popularly considered Syria’s “national pastime,” Joubin’s plot summaries are overwhelming...
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Crowds and Politics in North Africa: Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya by Andrea Khalil
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 227–229.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Valentine M. Moghadam My critique notwithstanding, scholars and students alike will learn a great deal about the politics of crowds in Algeria in 1988–89 and in Tunisia and Libya in 2011. In addition, they will generate discussions among themselves about the political and gender dynamics of mass...
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Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures I: Paradigms and Sources/Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures II: Family, Law, and Politics
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (1): 122–126.
Published: 01 March 2006
...:
Family, Law, and Politics
Edited by Suad Joseph et al. Leiden: Brill, 2005. xxviii+837. US$326
Reviewed by S. Margot Finn, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
The first two volumes of the six-volume Encyclopedia of Women and
Islamic Cultures (EWIC) offer a guide...
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