... reading for those scholars concerned with the history of the women’s movement in Egypt, the iconography of nationalism, and the intersection of gender and nationalism in colonial contexts generally. Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Volume 3: Family, Body...

...Erdağ Göknar This essay compares and contrasts Turkish author Halide Edib’s novel The Shirt of Flame (Duffield & Company, 1921) to the second volume of her memoirs, The Turkish Ordeal (The Century Company, 1928). Both texts have female protagonists and parallel plots and take place during...

...: Family, Law, and Politics Edited by Suad Joseph et al. Leiden: Brill, 2005. xxviii+837. US$326 Reviewed by S. Margot Finn, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan The first two volumes of the six-volume Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (EWIC) offer a guide...

... countries, an examination of the changing meaning of family appears a prerequisite for any study of the region. For this reason, Suad Joseph’s extensive edited volume Arab Family Studies: Critical Reviews is an important resource for scholars and policy makers who study the Arabic-speaking world. While...

...-with-video-twin-towers-burning/ . Despite the inconsistencies produced by the prioritization of theme over temporal development of the scholarship and the absence of non-Levantine work, this ambitious volume, which, in the spirit of Suleiman, generously embraces a wide variety of scholarship (x...

... and Resistance Anissa Hélie and Homa Hoodfar, eds. London and New York: Zed Books, 2012. 346 pages. ISBN 978-1-78032-285-8. Reviewed by Hina Azam, University of Texas at Austin In this volume, editors Anissa Hélie and Homa Hoodfar bring together eleven essays that collectively...

... Guarasci, Franklin and Marshall College Amira Sonbol’s Gulf Women is an ambitious project: The volume is a call to revise Gulf history by accounting for women. In this regard, the col- lection focuses not on gender as social construction, but on identifying the role of women in Gulf...

...Karen Leonard BOOK REVIEWS  111 facilitate updates and expansions and achieve a degree of standardiza- tion that will facilitate the use of the volume as a reference. In its current form, the variations and multiple foci of topical entries...

... Sojourns in Global Dubai , is forthcoming from Duke University Press. Inhorn is also the editor or co-editor of nine volumes, including Globalized Fatherhood (Berghahn, 2014), Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Histories, Activisms, and Futures (Duke University Press, 2012), and Islam...

... We launch volume 11 from JMEWS ’s new home with excitement. We are grateful to the energetic and committed professionals at Duke University Press and to our supporters in money and kind: the Duke University Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences, the Women’s Studies Program...

... and again, what it is that persists in this fantasy, especially when life provides us with rich material on the everyday failures of its membership to reach such “dream-worlds” and conform (as is evident in most case studies supplied by this edited volume). The labor entailed in working with and against...

...Banu Gökarıksel Our call for papers for volume 14 is on “Decolonizing Sex and Sexuality.” Please visit our website, jmews.org , for this call and regular updates about the journal. We are sad to say good-bye to our wonderful managing editor for volumes 11 and 12, Tamar Shirinian, who...

... existing volume on diasporic Iranian literature to date: a glance at the contribu- tor biographies at the end of the book reveals that four live in Iran, four in the Netherlands, three each in Canada, France, and Germany, and one each in the United States, England, Sweden, and Denmark...

... University Press. Inhorn is also the editor or co-editor of nine volumes, including Globalized Fatherhood (Berghahn, 2014), Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Histories, Activisms, and Futures (Duke University Press, 2012), and Islam and Assisted Re- productive Technologies: Sunni...

... out to excavate Anglo-European perceptions and fantasies of Middle Eastern sexuality, with a focus on male homoeroticism. In this substantial volume, Boone performs a close reading of an extensive repertoire of literary texts (including travelogues and fiction) and visual material (such as paintings...

... e mutually constitutive rela- BOOK REVIEWS  141 tionship between discordant topographies and the practices of gender- ing space is examined in the framework of the Global South in Martina Rieker and Kamran Asdar Ali’s edited volume, Gendering Urban...

.... Women’s narratives and experiences of romance and marriage take a central stage in the edited volume. The book provides a glimpse of women’s everyday life under the Islamic Republic, with most chapters resorting to ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews, oral history research, surveys...

... This is the second of a two-volume project, the first (Beck and Nashat 2003) covering a much longer period. Like the first, this volume is orga- nized in roughly chronological order, with some thematic pieces. There are ten contributions: two focus on the nineteenth century, one on the first half...

... feminism to Turkey; linkage and coordination between women’s librar- ies; and the accessibility of source materials in light of the exponential increase in the volume of information being produced in the digital era. Quoting Gloria Wekker from the 70th anniversary celebration of the IIAV...

... reform. Finally, Carol Malt highlights the role that museums play in the public sphere and the broader implications of the feminization of museum employment. MENA women museum staff may yet realize the potential powerful role they can play culturally. Overall, the papers in this volume explore...