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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 466–472.
Published: 01 November 2021
... in the face of colonial expansion. Of pan-Islamism, Johan Mathew ( 2017 : 959) observes that British colonial officials sought to counter its transnational reach and thus “domesticated” it by denying it any legitimacy as a mode of political organizing beyond its use as a tool for disruption, a trend that has...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 1–18.
Published: 01 November 2010
... products and spac-
es, forming new, transnational and transregional “Muslim networks”
(cooke and Lawrence 2005). At the same time, networks forged through
capitalist consumption practices create new marginalizations, leaving
some unconnected.
In the newly emergent “Islamic...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 3–24.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., and religious movements are invoked and reworked, configured and reconfigured together in often complex and contradictory ways. Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2017 Islamism migration transnational marriage Gulf Who marries whom, when, and where is crucial...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 314–332.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of contraception. transnational Islam emergency contraception cyberfatwa reproductive health internet “Emergency contraception” (EC) refers to an array of medications and devices that can be taken after sexual intercourse to reduce the risk of pregnancy. This class of postcoital contraception...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 64–95.
Published: 01 March 2021
... a transnational and era-specific ethos of revolution in which tropes of women’s militancy were a defining characteristic, and only with the consolidation of postrevolutionary politics was recast as an emblem of Khomeini’s Islamic Republic. Scholars like Madelyn Gutwirth and Joan Landes ( 1992 , 2001 ) have...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (2): 123–132.
Published: 01 July 2010
... to the Islamic religion. Th e attention Killian pays
to ethnographic detail allows her to carefully trace those shift s ensuing
from the transnational transposition of a large variety of Islamic practices,
and that occur within women’s public and private spaces. It is a process
in which the secularizing...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (1): 29–52.
Published: 01 March 2005
....
My study of gender and sexuality in Muslim northern Sudan under-
scores the coexistence of two transnational institutions: the Sudanese Com-
munist Party (SCP) and its afflliated Sudanese Women’s Union (SWU); and
the Islamist state as represented by the National Islamic Front (NIF) and its
past...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 416–437.
Published: 01 November 2017
.... The Iranian transnational media public is likewise a site of communication and contention. Since their beginnings in Los Angeles and elsewhere in diaspora in the 1980s, expatriate Iranian television and music have often expressed a strongly anti–Islamic Republic bent. Over the intervening decades expatriate...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 127–130.
Published: 01 March 2013
... Feminism and Islam:
Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco
Zakia Salime. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
248 pages. ISBN 978-0-8166-5134-5.
Reviewed by Jessica Newman, Yale University
Feminist scholars of the Middle East...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (1): 35–57.
Published: 01 March 2007
... of a unipolar world defined
by the US and Europe; and the “construction and positioning of Islam
as the new ‘other’—a ‘monolithic,’ ‘barbaric,’ ‘sinister’ force replacing
communism as the new ‘enemy’” (Khan 2002, 36).
This paper aims to serve less as an account of the kind of positive...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 113–116.
Published: 01 March 2009
... in Iranian society, especially during and aft er the 1979 revolu-
tion. Th e author, Minoo Moallem, applies postcolonial theories and the
analytical framework of transnational feminism to study the situation
of Iranian women visvis competing discourses such as Islamic Shia
fundamentalism in Iran...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 110–112.
Published: 01 March 2019
... in several languages by teachers of similar ethnonational backgrounds in ways that resonate with domestic workers’ everyday activities. Migrant women domestic workers use the center to seek advice on Islamic practices and different aspects of their transnational life. In conclusion, Ahmad’s...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 1–7.
Published: 01 July 2006
... and Boston: Brill
Academic Publishers.
In press The Impact of Islamization on Moroccan Feminisms. Signs: Journal
of Women in Culture and Society (32)1.
Smith, Jackie, Charles Chatfield and Ron Pagnucco, ed.
1997 Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 130–133.
Published: 01 March 2013
... on subjectivity help us
to better account for the forms of agency sex workers enact, and their
understandings of their transnational circumstances?
Between Feminism and Islam:
Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco
Zakia Salime. Minneapolis: University...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 March 2014
... introduce this special issue.
Sondra Hale’s scholarship focuses on women’s movements and orga-
nizations, Islamic movements, postcolonial studies, transnational gender
studies, and memory and resistance. Straddling several disciplines, her
scholarship often addresses questions...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 195–215.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of religion’s (Islam’s) priority and ideals of religious unity to increase their agency in mate selection and marriage practices. Literature on Muslim American communities agrees that young generations of Muslims in the United States adapt transnational and multiple identities and accordingly use a number...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (1): 164–166.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., policymakers, and international organizations. Fábos
is currently conducting ethnographic research on the transnational strate-
gies of women and men in the Muslim Arab Sudanese diaspora to promote
“family values” and negotiate a Sudanese diasporic identity, particularly in
the context of global Islam...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 238–259.
Published: 01 July 2022
... Politics in Modern Iran . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Afshar Haleh . 1998 . Islam and Feminisms: An Iranian Case-Study , 2nd ed. Basingstoke : Palgrave . Ahmad Leila . 2012 . A Quiet Revolution: The Veil’s Resurgence, from the Middle East to America . New Haven...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 128–131.
Published: 01 November 2008
..., the book suggests the pivotal role of NGOs and transnational
organizations, which since 1998 have tended to complement and extend
the progressive agendas of the women in Muhammadiyah and NU in
Indonesia.
Women Shaping Islam has ethnographic truth and power in its...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 10–36.
Published: 01 March 2012
... can be interpreted as an example of how women’s rights activism may be able to push its agenda while adjusting to both transnational discourses and national politics. Bettina Dennerlein teaches Gender Studies and Islamic Studies at the University of Zurich. She has studied in Berlin and Cairo...
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