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Published: 01 March 2018
Figure 1. View of Oran from the Virgin Mary of Santa Cruz, ca. 1900
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Published: 01 November 2016
Figure 4. Virgins of Paradise (2014). Fine art paper print. 100 cm × 120 cm (39.3 in × 47.2 in), 90 cm × 75 cm (35.4 in × 29.5 in)
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Published: 01 November 2016
Figure 5. Virgins of Paradise 2 (2014). Fine art paper print. 100 cm × 120 cm (39.3 in × 47.2 in), 75 cm × 90 cm (29.5 in × 35.4 in)
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 416–422.
Published: 01 November 2019
... includes restrictions on discussions around virginity. The movies A Madonna in Laleli ( Azize: Bir Laleli Hikayesi , 1999) and Secret ( Saklı , 2015) have a special place in the Turkish film archive because of their focus on revirginization practices. Revirginization is the set of methods women use...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 104–108.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Figure 1. View of Oran from the Virgin Mary of Santa Cruz, ca. 1900 ...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 425–432.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Figure 4. Virgins of Paradise (2014). Fine art paper print. 100 cm × 120 cm (39.3 in × 47.2 in), 90 cm × 75 cm (35.4 in × 29.5 in) ...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 288–290.
Published: 01 July 2016
... conducted fieldwork in Ankara, Turkey, between 2003 and 2005 to study the rhetorical uses of language in the context of virginity examinations. My study was based on participatory action research methods, and my field sites included a squatter settlement, a village, and an upper-class neighborhood. While...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 135–137.
Published: 01 March 2017
... Square—which were the only thing many in the West heard about. The revolution, however, also brought with it new openness and ability to talk about taboo topics such as sexual violence and sexual harassment. Graffiti, YouTube videos, and the famous lawsuit against the Egyptian police for forced virginity...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 283–305.
Published: 01 November 2015
... virginity, she produced the requisite medical exam certified by a French doctor. In response, Bellout confessed to his wrongs but explained that Kebbous consistently repelled his sexual advances. He argued that when he beat her, it was only to apply the conventional “light correction” allowed in cases...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 206–208.
Published: 01 July 2020
... the concept of female adolescence, she reveals the importance of kin support for women and corrects previously held narratives about marriage, including the idea that there were preferences for cousin marriage and marrying female virgins. As Krakowski states in her introduction, “This book considers how...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 136–139.
Published: 01 November 2014
... their families.
She devotes considerable time to the evolving connotation of the
Persian word najeeb, which can be roughly translated as pure, sweet,
and virginal. She describes “najeebness” (her word) as a desirable trait
expected of Iranian Jewish women that corresponds to women being ex-
pected...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (2): 111–114.
Published: 01 July 2008
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in Sweden and write about Turkish university youth (Aylın Akpınar)
and narratives on virginity by Iranian women in Sweden (Fataneh Fara-
hani).
Moghissi’s Introduction does point to some shared themes illus-
trated by various contributions, for example, the ideas that identity...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 135–138.
Published: 01 March 2008
... to be encouraged to get a driver’s license, thus starting a popular
trend among middle-class young women. As to questions of inap-
propriate sexual behavior, along with recourse to blaming the loss of
virginity on a jinn, town members in Rothenberg’s account resort to a
solution I witnessed...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (1): 82–104.
Published: 01 March 2014
...-witness accounts. Many
were beaten viciously and others who were arrested were subjected to
virginity tests in full view of army soldiers. Samira Ibrahim, a woman
in her twenties, took the military to court to protest this practice to
herself and to others. Although she won the case, the court did...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 50–71.
Published: 01 March 2023
... . “ Politics of Culture and Cosmopolitan Nostalgia during Islamists’ Rule in Egypt .” Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 13 : 152 – 69 . Studies Nazra for Feminist . 2012 . “ We Pledge to Continue the Pursuit of All Involved in This Crime and Attempted Cover-Up: Military ‘Virginity...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 379–400.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Ayça . 2005 . “ Politics of the Body and Eugenic Discourse in Early Republican Turkey .” Body and Society 11 , no. 3 : 61 – 76 . Altınay Ayşe Gül . 2002 . “ Bedenimiz ve biz: Bekaret ve cinselliğin siyaseti ” (“Our Bodies and Us: Politics of Virginity and Sexuality”). In 90’larda...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 171–172.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Saadawi condemned anything she considered a tool of women’s oppression. In The Hidden Face of Eve she describes the physical and psychological trauma of female circumcision; the practice was criminalized in Egypt in 2008. She denounced virginity tests sold in British clinics. “Circumcision was not my...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 307–329.
Published: 01 November 2019
... balad to a femme fatale—and the opposition between them—is depicted in Hasan al Seifi’s masterful film Habibi al Asmar ( My Dark Darling , 1958), in which we can see each character in each extreme of the virgin/whore dyad. Interestingly, this is the only film in which Carioca and Gamal costar, both...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 63–79.
Published: 01 March 2015
... at hookah cafes. Dance also allows them to delay marriage. In a context where marriage remains the defining marker of adult status and a sexual life, being unmarried enables the women dancers to connect this ideal of virginal girlhood with their own innocence and chastity. In the process, they protect...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 118–119.
Published: 01 July 2007
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countries through which the author traveled. Th e story of the woman
who was tested for virginity before marriage to her cousin stands as a
striking criticism of customary practice. Th e author evokes true tradition
and religious custom regarding women and their rights as the basis for
her...
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