... of objectification she faced. Describing the details of what it means to pose as an artist’s model, she explains: “Professionalism meant objectification—not the sexy kind, but the kind that turns you into an object, like a chair” (81). Crabapple’s engagement with the war on terror seems to have been inaugurated...

... domestic duties to women in Turkey, already living in a strongly patriarchal society. Copyright © 2021 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2021 Turkey conservatism Cold War motherhood In September 1952, Matthew Bunker Ridgway, the newly appointed supreme commander...

...Maryam Zehtabi Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran-Iraq War . Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh . Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press , 2021 457 pages. isbn 9780815637103. Copyright © 2021 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2021 Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh’s book...

... in the past decade. Families, both mothers and fathers, have started to publicly question the deaths of their children in combat. Deploying soldiers to fight in a conflict that the state and military have both been reluctant to officially recognize as a war and expecting unquestioning acceptance of casualties...

..., and Berlin in 2015–16, we show that Kurdish activists have struggled to make the eradication of gender-based inequalities and violence central to the wider Kurdish peace movement, while Turkish women’s rights activists have increasingly recognized that the war against the Kurds, “like a blanket,” often...

...Evelyne Accad References Accad Evelyne . 1990 . Sexuality and War: Literary Masks of the Middle East . New York : New York University Press . Accad Evelyne . 2000 . Voyages en cancer . Paris : Harmattan . Accad Evelyne . 2001 . The Wounded Breast: Intimate...

.... Researchers have assumed that religious zealotry was the primary inspiration for boys to enlist in the Iran-Iraq War (1980–88) after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, ignoring the ways in which class inflected boyhood. While religious fervor may have been a motivation for some of the poor and working-class Iranian...

...Kamran Rastegar A comparative study of Liana Badr’s The Eye of the Mirror and Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India shows that these two novels present intriguingly similar feminist frameworks through which the traumas of war and communal violence may be addressed. They do so by erasing the distinction...

...Ferial J. Ghazoul 120  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES Children of the New World: A Novel of the Algerian War Assia Djebar. Translated from the French by Marjolijn de Jager. Aft erword by Cla- risse Zimra. New York: Th e Feminist Press...

...Sima Shakhsari In this essay, I argue that during the post-September 11 th “war on terror,” the Iranian homosexual became transferred from the position of the abject to the representable subject in transnational political realms. This shift involves Iranian opposition groups, transnational media...

... Studies 2006 CYRUS SCHAYEGH  1 CRIMINAL-WOMEN AND MOTHER-WOMEN: SOCIOCULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND THE CRITIQUE OF CRIMINALITY IN EARLY POST-WORLD WAR II IRAN Cyrus...

..., in particular women’s movements; feminism and nationalism; war, violence, and state-building; critical-feminist review of learning theories; and skilling and de-skilling of immigrant women. She is currently conducting SSHRC-funded comparative research on war, diaspora, and learning; women political prisoners...

.... PENNY JOHNSON & SUAD JOSEPH ./ 1 INTRODUCTION War and Transnational Arab Families Penny Johnson and Suad Joseph ./ hat’s war got to do with it? In conversations, consultations, and Wcomparative research since 2001...

... PENNY JOHNSON, LAMIS ABU NAHLEH, & ANNELIES MOORS ./ 11 WEDDINGS AND WAR: Marriage Arrangements and Celebrations in Two Palestinian Intifadas Penny Johnson, Lamis Abu Nahleh, and Annelies Moors...

...Nadine Naber This article is based on ethnographic research among southern Lebanese in Dearborn, Michigan, in the aftermath of the 2006 war in Lebanon. It focuses on the significance of family and gender in the intensification of long-distance nationalism among Lebanese in diaspora. The war...

...Thaira Al-Mayyahy Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Figure 1. Thaira Al-Mayyahy, Women in a Time of War , 2013. Figure 1. Thaira Al-Mayyahy, Women in a Time of War, 2013. I painted this image in 2013, during a time of war. Though military...

... the outbreak of the civil war in 1975. After living the war for five years, she left in 1980 and moved with her partner, the celebrated artist and poet Etel Adnan, to Sausalito, in California’s Marin County. She founded the Post-Apollo Press, which published socially committed and spiritually engaged...

...Eileen Kuttab [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2024 Since World War II the United States has established and maintained political, economic, cultural, and military hegemony at the global level (Davis and Ness 2022 ). Samir Amin...