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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 359–386.
Published: 01 November 2022
... Intishārāt-i Islāmī . Alipour Mehrdad . 2017a . “ Islamic Sharīʿa Law, Neo-traditionalist Muslim Scholars and Transgender Sex-Reassignment Surgery: A Case Study of Ayatollah Khomeinī’s and Sheikh al-Tantawi’s Fatwās .” International Journal of Transgenderism 18 , no. 1 : 91 – 103...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 245–263.
Published: 01 November 2020
... . Atamer Yeşim M. 2005 . “ The Legal Status of Transsexuals in Turkey .” International Journal of Transgenderism 8 , no. 1 : 65 – 71 . Crawford Lucas . 2016 . Transgender Architectonics: The Shape of Change in Modernist Space . New York : Routledge . Feinberg Leslie...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 331–336.
Published: 01 November 2015
... state political claims are advanced through the idiom of sexuality. Among the examples Yildiz provided is the Hevi Istanbul initiative, a recently founded lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) group that integrates sexuality politics, class politics, and the Kurdish political struggle against...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 72–95.
Published: 01 March 2023
... visibility normalizes them to advance their social acceptance. Academic research in trans studies, Middle East studies, and Iranian studies has similarly advocated for more representations of LGBTQ people. Early trans studies scholars justified the increased visibility of transsexuality/transgender...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 111–114.
Published: 01 July 2011
... Bareed Mista3jil a critical and
timely publication. This collection of forty-one narratives about Leba-
nese lesbian, bisexual, queer, and questioning women and transgender
112 mn JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES 7:2
persons is published by Meem, a Lebanese organization for homosexual...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 113–115.
Published: 01 November 2011
..., and the rights of gay and lesbian, as well as of transgender and
intersex persons, were seen by many as undesirable additions to a move-
ment that might otherwise have a chance at success. İlkkaracan signals a
new and more inclusive approach to sexual and gender minority rights
in the region...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 225–245.
Published: 01 July 2016
... in the early 2000s. Doctors in Turkey accept the Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender-Nonconforming People set by Harry Benjamin (World Professional Association for Transgender Health 2012 ). 10. “Ruhsal Muayenesi: Dış görünümü yaşında. Ayakta. Çevresine ilgisi normal...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 94–99.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of selected submissions, because one of the collective’s values is to appreciate original work using the currency of the system in which the work has been created. In the winter of 2019 Zaʾfaraan released an online archival website. In “Him, in Amman . . . Her, in Beirut,” Maya, a transgender woman from...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 457–461.
Published: 01 November 2021
... a valuable resource. Muedini reviews state-sanctioned violence against LGBTI people and the promotion of homophobia, discrimination in employment, the harsh conditions faced by LGTBI refugees in Turkey, the precarity of transgender people, AKP’s legislative attempts for gay-only prisons, and media biases...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 368–370.
Published: 01 November 2015
... Copyright © 2015 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2015 HELEM means “dream” in Arabic and is the acronym for Lebanese Protection for Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Transgenders (LGBTs), which includes protection for persons with nonnormative sexualities and gender identity...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 325–330.
Published: 01 November 2015
... of Islamic women that could offer an Islamic criticism of the gender complementarity and motherhood promoted by the AKP. The chapter by Burçak Cürül and Dönmez shows how violence became a tool of a patriarchal citizenship regime that is also heteronormative. Through interviews conducted with transgender...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 63–88.
Published: 01 November 2012
... the metaphor of the Internet as a digital closet as it relates to collegiate lesbian and gay activism. The conclusion reflects on the significance and functions of this media metaphor for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and transsexual agency and subjectivities in Turkey, suggesting similar venues...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 31–51.
Published: 01 July 2014
..., pilgrimage, burial, marriage,
and inheritance (Sanders 1991); approval of the surgery was a tech-
nique of achieving social control and maintaining public morality.
While some Iranian Shi‘i Islamic clerics believe that transgenders
farrah jafari...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 213–226.
Published: 01 July 2020
... work has bridged the early modern, the modern, and even the contemporary, specifically when it comes to transgender and transsexuality issues in Iran. What do you think are the opportunities and challenges, for a historian, of working on contemporary issues or engaging in some form of what has...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 230–232.
Published: 01 July 2018
... and inequalities among women. Clair obscur gestures in this direction in an early scene where Şehnaz sees a transgender youth as a client. However, the film overall does not problematize the distance and disparity between Elmas and Şehnaz, which is cloaked under the therapeutic relationship between the patient...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 252–254.
Published: 01 July 2018
... Directorate for Protecting Public Morality has been engaged in a vicious crackdown primarily against the users of queer dating applications, namely, gay men, men who practice sex with other men, those deemed sexually suspect in these regards, and transgender women. The average number of people annually...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 155–157.
Published: 01 November 2012
...”
(Transgender Studies Reader II, forthcoming); and “Women, Gender, and
Sexuality in Historiography of Modern Iran” (co-authored with Afsaneh
Najmabadi and Mana Kia, Iran in the 20th Century: Historiography and
Political Culture, 2009).
Grant Walsh-Haines is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 117–119.
Published: 01 March 2024
... conceptualization (as does the final reference to transgender sex workers vis-à-vis the acts that define someone as a “homosexual”), it underscores the significance of acknowledging that gender and sexuality are in constant flux. Although this edited collection’s title highlights the broad focus on “Muslim...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 321–323.
Published: 01 July 2017
... with the lesbian/gay/transgender movements, command the reader’s attention. If indeed the color line of the early twentieth century has shifted toward a faith-based identification, Lewis shows how fashion practices around the veil both generate and reveal intrafaith and interfaith religious distinctions...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 135–137.
Published: 01 March 2017
... many memories of my visits and then my year in Egypt: the warning not to leave home with wet hair, because that advertises that you’ve just had sex; my evening at After 8 club, in which a gay couple took the dance floor as well as a beautiful tall transgender woman; and the young policeman who thought...
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