... 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...

...-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey: State, Society, and Gender in the Early Republic Sevgi Adak Tauris, 2022 222 pages. ISBN 9781784537920 Reviewed by MERVE KÜTÜK-KURI This book explores the politics of the unveiling campaigns to modernize women s dress under single-party rule in Turkey. Sevgi Adak s main...

... 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...

... girl” became the major target of opposition against the Shah with the conservative backlash against the association of freedom with unveiling (172) and the secular and socialist critiques of women’s “commoditization and sexual objectification” through culture (173). In this context the book highlights...

... 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...

...’ 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...

...- 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...

... will take you (women and children) to a safe island and come back to fight,” while a shocking tweet read, “Wives of the military coup soldiers are our war-trophy.” With progovernment protestors filling the public during the night, not only did (unveiled) women express fear and experiences of street...

..., 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...

... Nation, 1804–1946 (1999), looks at the centrality of frontiers, land, 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...

..., 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...

... the right kind of leader. At the center of the debate was the decades-old question of Egypt’s readiness for democracy. My positionality as a white, unveiled female PhD student from a reputable university in Europe at the time of the research made accessing the spaces of Cairo’s elite sociability...

... who has found embodied activism in academe. To work from within and without the body is to find alternative ways of navigation. To consider the shamed body is to unveil the social constructions of ableism. Writing and teaching, then, become tools of activism, and it is a slow and painful rebirth...

.... 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...

... 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 represented “appear as active participants in the production of their own images” (58), but their unveiling should not necessarily...