... offers an analysis of Mariam , focusing on the protagonist’s embodied encounters with her teacher, school principal, father, and fellow students. The article argues that by recounting Mariam’s gendered and racialized struggles with forced unveiling, Ambah shifts the discourse on the head scarf from one...

... their surrogates. They felt the need to meet them, even if only once, to bring the relationship to a good end. Their balancing act unveils the asymmetries that structure transnational surrogacy. Gay men rely on distance and proximity to create consistent stories of origin for their children. They do so, however...

...Edith Szanto Abstract During the onslaught of the Islamic caliphate on Kobanî, Syria, media outlets across the globe broadcast pictures of brave and often unveiled Kurdish women fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), a quintessentially male force of destruction. The images...

... accompanied by the virtual unveiling of women bloggers in cyberspace. Through their personal narration, women bloggers transgress several sociocultural boundaries. The strategy of women in both spaces is the same: to become more visible, to speak out, and to create a new identity closer to their “inner self...

... 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...

... their difference from earlier forms of activism and their proliferation in cyberspace. While 2019 marked the fortieth anniversary of Iranian women’s resistance against compulsory veiling, they have struggled for the right to veil or unveil for almost 170 years. Important historical resistance to national...

...’ general encouragement of national cultural identification, set the stage for po- litical ferment. In fact, unveiling campaigns in Uzbekistan were widely unsuccessful. More women permanently unveiled in places where such campaigns had not occurred than in places where they did occur...

... practices. Likewise, in what Nasif described as the war between the “con- servatives” and the “liberals” on the issue of face-veiling she adopted a decidedly nuanced view. While she considered many sides of the issue, she dismissed the idea that Egyptian women should unveil simply to be more...

...- Iican and British media demonized the burqa as “Afghanistan’s veil of terror,” a tool of extremists and the epitome of political and sexual repres- sion (Shah 2001). But after the Taliban’s fall, when women failed to unveil JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES...

..., and (sexual) violence look like? What challenges does this moment pose for feminist politics? Feminists have called on their sisters among the protestors to display solidarity against men’s assaults on unveiled women whom they attacked as “secular pro-coup” along with their usual penetration-based insults...

..., arguing in favor of unveiling and JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES Vol. 4, No. 1 (Winter 2008) © 2008 54  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES ending the seclusion of women. A scandal broke out in Iraq, followed by a passionate debate...

... first on the complex history of veiling and unveiling in Egypt over the course of the twentieth century. This history is situated not only within Egyptian domestic politics, but in a larger context of Western influence, colonialism, and Arab nationalism. The long sec- tion devoted to this history...

..., and geography in Iranian nationalism. She is currently completing two academic projects. The first, “Unveiling Women’s Lives: Science, Sexuality, and Religion in Modern,” documents the social and cultural history of Iranian women from the late nineteenth century until the establishment of the Islamic Republic...

..., for example, Mahmud Mukhtar’s sculpture Nahdat Misr (unveiled(unveiled inin 1928)1928) iconizediconized thethe fi guregure ofof thethe EgyptianEgyptian femalefemale peas-peas- ant or fallaha. Baron focuses on the rise of an illustrated press and the visual documentation of women in political culture...

... expose selected parts of the women’s bodies—neck, shoulders, arms, and face. Products of the glamour industry highlight the shapes of their faces, and their bare legs glisten. The viewer immediately notices that the women are unveiled. This is because they are surrounded by three veiled women. The veiled...

... to create a broader space of inclusion, not only for the collective but at the microlevel, inside the classroom and throughout my own unveiling and exposure. I began my journey of approaching this space by questioning the boundaries inside and outside the classroom. My students had access to only one...

... Politics” of Nasir al-Din Shah’s photographs of his harem that look at both women and eunuchs. Scheiwiller discusses how these women often appear unveiled, which, as she rightly points out, meant the uncovering of the face and not the hair (48). According to the author, many of the harem elite women...

.... Her analysis of Lacan, although a bit too preoccupied with his “phallocentrism,” somewhat foreshadows the cur- rent obsession of French left ist and feminist intellectuals to lift the veil and their incapacity to step out of a liberal normative framework, which equates the unveiled...

... attention on embodied subjects as citizens of nation- states. Th rough a self-refl exive lens, Moallem traces the history of forced unveiling during the reign of Reza Shah (1926–41). She argues that the authoritarian state imposed coercive public patriarchy by enforcing the mandatory...

...- ening propaganda transformed the defi nition of “male guardian” from being essentially familial (father, brother, husband, son) to civic (teacher, classmate, supervisor, co-worker), with the good offi ces of the state and its policies chaperoning the masses of unveiled women to a golden age...