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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 31–51.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Farrah Jafari Recent scholarly research on the Iranian transsexual raises significant issues about the position of Islam toward members of the transsexual community and about the challenges facing sexual lifestyles that are aberrant to heteronormative behavior in Iran. In 1967, the exiled Ayatollah...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 221–223.
Published: 01 July 2015
... of the main jurisprudential authorities on transsexuality at Qum. She met him on several occasions and engaged him about the potentials and limits of fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) in interpreting questions related to sex and gender. Najmabadi shows that despite the lack of agreement in the religious...
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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 (2018) 14 (2): 255–258.
Published: 01 July 2018
... personally care about the issues of [providing] schooling, work, and healthcare [for LGBT members]. We all have problems but we specifically have problems over these issues. Do all homosexuals and transsexuals face these difficulties? No, but a majority of them do, and they require remedy. The state others...
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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 (2020) 16 (2): 213–226.
Published: 01 July 2020
... Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran (2014). Contact: [email protected] . AN: I think in many ways the field now, whether you are talking about feminist studies or studies of sexuality, compared to where it started, is virtually unrecognizable, in terms...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 225–245.
Published: 01 July 2016
... in the legal code on transsexuality, Seval said she had a friend whose pink ID was rejected on the grounds of having a 1.5-inch-deep vagina, which meant that her friend lacked legal recognition as a female. After a few seconds of silence, she cracked a bitter joke with a forced smile: “The state rapes us...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 457–461.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Sinan Goknur 1. The abbreviation for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (previously transvestite and transsexual), intersex, and other sexual orientations and gender identity used in the queer movement in Turkey has varied over time from LGBT, LGBTT, and LGBTI to, most recently, LGBTI...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 359–386.
Published: 01 November 2022
... : 383 – 406 . Bettcher Talia Mae . 2016 . “ Intersexuality, Transgender, and Transsexuality .” In The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory , edited by Disch Lisa and Hawkesworth Mary , 407 – 27 . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Byne William , Bradley Susan...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 113–115.
Published: 01 November 2011
... survey of criminal laws in the Middle East relating to women
and sexuality, covering legal dealings with adultery under shari‘a, honor
crimes, rape, incest and sexual abuse of children, sexual harassment,
homosexuality, transsexual/transvestism, illegitimate children, abortion...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 143–151.
Published: 01 July 2018
... University Press . Najmabadi Afsaneh . 2014 . Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . O. Rachid . 1995 . L’enfant ébloui . Paris : Gallimard . O. Rachid . 1996 . Plusieurs vies . Paris...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 242–245.
Published: 01 July 2018
... homosexuals as neighbors. More seriously, there have been several incidents of murder or assault against gays and transsexuals. This is one reason we cannot yet have national distribution of the film, and could have only one screening during the premiere in Turkey. The film, however, was shown in over fifty...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 331–336.
Published: 01 November 2015
... transsexuality. Shakhsari focused on Iranian transgender refugees, many of whom are stuck in Turkey for a number of years until they are allowed to enter Canada, the United States, or Europe. She argued that they have become highly representable victim subjects of Iranian transphobia, particularly since...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 325–330.
Published: 01 November 2015
... term that encompasses exploitation, economic domination, and gender-based discrimination. 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 (termed transsexual...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 89–118.
Published: 01 November 2008
..., and desires.
Some blogs by gays, lesbians, and transsexuals fi rst emerged in
mainstream Weblogistan during these discussions, as some well known
bloggers referred to them or actually introduced them in connection
with some of their topics. Many of these queer bloggers write about their
problems...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 1–11.
Published: 01 November 2008
..., and many men had sexual
relations with both men and women, without being considered anything
less than masculine. A few men adopted partially or wholly female dress
and mannerisms; these were generally looked down upon. Some are now
considered transsexuals and some are getting sex-change operations...
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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...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 433–449.
Published: 01 November 2016
... mentions an old friend named Haidar “Dina” Fayek who was murdered shortly before the interview. Haidar/Dina “worked in the prostitution industry as a transsexual madam, was a fixture in Baghdadi gay circles, [and was] always loud and fun and quick with a laugh. She never hid her orientation and indeed...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 245–263.
Published: 01 November 2020
... , translated by Heller-Roazen Daniel . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . 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...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 26–49.
Published: 01 March 2023
... initiatives for more than thirty years working for women’s rights, what shattered me most was that they [the marchers] reduced women’s rights to relentless sexuality, limitless alcohol, an anti-family stance, and transsexual promiscuity. . . . Those drawings of sexual organs and breasts on every banner...
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