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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 41–61.
Published: 01 March 2020
... and propagated the movement and its whiteness to their family members—sometimes intentionally and sometimes optically or in the eyes of authorities. If this example is one of a mostly external imposition, other illustrations from Levy can reveal how Zionist imperial whiteness was more consciously accumulated...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 111–113.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., independence, and men’s legal superiority have made the option of “white marriages” more attractive to the younger generation. Despite its popularity, women are vulnerable to abuse and violence by their partners as there are no laws to protect them, and they often need to live a double life due to the social...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 144–147.
Published: 01 July 2005
...Christian Pond Islamist Mobilization in Turkey: A Study in Vernacular Politics , White Jenny B. . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2002 . xii + 299 pp. including chapter notes, bibliography and index. $35.00 cloth, $22.50 paperback. Copyright © 2005 Association...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (1): 35–57.
Published: 01 March 2007
... may not be up to the task. The focus of the paper is on “white Turk” identity and ideology which have emerged in Turkey since the 1980s and have significantly influenced political and intellectual orientations among intellectuals, including liberal feminists. It is argued that this influence...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 473–478.
Published: 01 November 2021
...-proclaimed “international” organization recast Afifa as a “white” Syrian woman in need of rescue. However, it does not explain why. By piecing the fragments of Afifa’s story together, I approach her jumbled portrait to argue that women’s movements across national borders (as well as the efforts of those bent...
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in From Guerrilla Girls to Zainabs: Reassessing the Figure of the “Militant Woman” in the Iranian Revolution
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 5. A young girl holds a “white book” pamphlet of the writings of Che Guevara in one hand and a carnation in the other. Published in Tehran Mosavvar , January 19, 1979 [29 Dey 1357]. Siagzar Berelian Collection, Box 12, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 395–415.
Published: 01 November 2017
... nation. This project simultaneously empowers women and enables state violence against Palestinians on Haram ash-Sharif. Scholarship that has examined Israel’s messianic right-wing women’s activism has overlooked their Ashkenazi whiteness and their middle-class privileged status in Israel. The race-class...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 89–110.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Cenk Özbay; Ilkan Can Ipekci Abstract Gender studies and its professors are attacked and oppressed by patriarchal, masculinist, antifeminist, and anti-LGBTI discourses and institutional practices. This trend is not limited to white- and/or Christian-majority countries, as the literature has...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 379–400.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., not because it draws on a liberal, individualistic framework but because it represents the bodily autonomy of the white reproductive subject, assuming that it is an ethnoracially unmarked, universal subject. In doing so, the article demonstrates how feminist strategies that build on bodily autonomy obscure...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 19–57.
Published: 01 November 2010
... Modern Egyptian Girl was no different from her sisters worldwide. She appeared in the postwar period and was associated with a variety of commodities. Depicted as white and Europeanized, her Egyptian incarnation coincided with the emergence of similar political iconography. The male elite desired...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 24–47.
Published: 01 March 2019
... invisible, enabling reproduction of gender inequality. Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Israel Orientalism Jews race/ethnicity whiteness I argued above that both sets of women received similar messages about gender in their families of origin prior...
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in Ladies Aid as Labor History: Working-Class Formation in the Mahjar
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 1. Syrian Ladies Aid Society at Boston’s Armistice Day Parade, 1925. Hannah Sabbagh appears at left, in white. Courtesy of the Schlesinger Library, Harvard University.
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Published: 01 November 2018
Figure 5. Arab Camp in foreground; American Camp, also known as “Dhahran Camp,” in background. Oilmen unselfconsciously established Dhahran Camp as a colonial implantation. Most of the American inhabitants were white Texans hailing from oil towns. Note the stark difference in construction
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 373–376.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Maryam Kashani The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race . Neda Maghbouleh . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2017 . 248 pages. isbn 9781503603370 (paper) . The Limits of Westernization: A Cultural History of America in Turkey...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 414–418.
Published: 01 November 2022
...) and the shifts in conceptions of race. While most articles in the volume regard Arab Americans as people of color, Rita Stephan’s chapter treats Lebanese identity as a white ethnicity by claiming that “within the American frame of reference, most Americans are considered immigrants anyway,” immigrants...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 402–408.
Published: 01 November 2019
... white supremacy. 1. Adhering to best practices for community-engaged research, the community partner organization received both acknowledgment and fair compensation for its work. Cainkar and Najeeb received no compensation for their work on this project. 2. This finding is not simply...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 325–330.
Published: 01 November 2015
... and manages to say something significant about religion in Turkey and religion in general. The women she spent many hours with practiced subtle gift giving, like leaving a few biscuits on the table. They also expressed doubts similar to those described by White’s interlocutors. We learn how one can be both...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 83–85.
Published: 01 July 2009
... in particular extend the fi eld of critical whiteness
studies by investigating the ways Arab Americans complicate the con-
cept of whiteness. In “‘Whiteness’ and the Arab Immigrant Experience,”
Sawsan Abdulrahim argues that the racialization of Arab Americans
can be understood through dynamic...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 236–241.
Published: 01 July 2018
... 2012 ). This series consists of four images, each of a single, larger-than-life woman’s head wearing a headdress typically donned by Saudi men. The figure in each print uses rich black ink that strongly contrasts against vividly white paper. Two of the portrait visages look at the viewer (in black...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (3): 118–148.
Published: 01 November 2010
... 2002; White 2002; Gökarıksel 2007).
In the 1980s, however, the role of the headscarf and Islamic dress
in Turkey entered into a new phase of political and cultural contention.
Economic restructuring in Turkey spurred by IMF structural adjustment
in the 1980s and Turkey’s entrance...
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