... professor of economics at Drew University. Copyright © 2005 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2005 112  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES IS PAID WORK THE (ONLY) ANSWER? NEOLIBERALISM, ARAB WOMEN’S WELL-BEING, AND THE SOCIAL CONTRACT...

... commission efforts to document a Casablanca working class district—simultaneously as a site targeted for communal reparations, as an urban and historical space of dissidence, and as the location of Morocco’s infamous space of incarceration and human rights abuses. Susan Slyomovics is Professor...

...Claire Beaugrand Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait . Attiya Ahmad . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2017 . 270 pages. isbn 9780822363446. Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019...

... in modern law and society as both a promise of lifelong companionship and a private institution that threatens to close a woman off from her other relationships, especially those with her female friends, and thereby from her means of engaging in the ethical work of developing a pious self. It also reads...

... PALESTINIAN WORKING WOMEN IN ISRAEL NATIONAL OPPRESSION AND SOCIAL RESTRAINTS Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud mn Abstract The paid labor force participation of women in Arab states...

... that emanate from such a vision requires the kind of historical understanding Ahmed offers us in this timely and engaging book. Working Out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870-1940 Wilson Chacko Jacob. Durham; London: Duke University Press, 2011...

... Copyright © 2014 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2014 mn  133 PUBLISHED AND MISCELLANEOUS WORKS BY SONDRA HALE mn bio-bibliography of Sondra Hale’s arts-related...

...Shaherzad R. Ahmadi Abstract During the Pahlavi period in Iran (1925–79), poor and working-class families were more likely to expect young sons to work to support the household. These boys, in turn, were more autonomous. Middle-class families, on the other hand, protected and controlled boys...

...Ferial J. Ghazoul Literature, Gender, and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: The Life and Works of ‘A’isha Taymur , Hatem Mervat F. . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2011 . 234 pages. ISBN 978-0-230-11350-3 . Copyright © 2013 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies...

... period, 1969–79, hang on some of the walls. They contrast with the somber charcoal Illuminated Letters (2008), which spells out Sufi aphorisms. Above all, the darkness of the times Fattal has experienced comes out in her warrior works, which curator Ruba Katrib calls her “humble forms of epic...

... in the anthropology/sociology of Muslim women, arguing that such scholarship has inadvertently “served to bind Muslim women’s agency to religion” by overemphasizing women’s piety (70) while overlooking the ordinary and mundane forms of female agency. Sehlikoğlu sees her work more aligned with the emerging scholarship...

...Stacy D. Fahrenthold Abstract In the Arabic-speaking mahjar (diaspora), the plight of the working poor was the focus of women’s philanthropy. Scholarship on welfare relief in the interwar Syrian, Lebanese, and Palestinian diaspora currently situates it within a gendered politics of benevolence...

... an isolated act motivated by urban conditions of poverty, but many women became skilled repeat offenders who worked individually or in teams, taking advantage of the growing transportation networks that linked villages, towns, and cities. The theft examined includes shoplifting, pickpocketing, burglary...

... East. We very much value your impressive pioneering and important work on medical anthropology, science and reproductive technologies, the anthropology of gender, and religion in the Middle East. Your thick ethnographic accounts of the lives of men and women who struggle with infertility and how...

..., capitalism, and gender. In particular, the focus on the intimate in Zaat reveals how political projects are depicted in the domestic sphere through the lens of women’s work. The article explores two themes: one, the increasing financial pressure and its effects on constructs of masculinity and femininity...

..., despite representing an important contribution to Algerian literature and women’s life writing. Rather than accepting the “first” novel as an objective category, this article shows how the accolade has obscured works like Wanisi’s from Algerian literary history, reinforced gender and genre binaries...

... of women entrepreneurs in starting their own businesses, focusing on the Al-Dhahira region of Oman. Data were collected through a structured survey questionnaire. The study identified the major characteristics of women entrepreneurs that inspired them to start their businesses. An urge to balance the work...

... class, in the present work we examine this program’s gender implications. In addition to the role it played in the emergence of the ethno-working class, the program significantly contributed to the reproduction and reinforcement of a gender-based division of labor in Israeli society. This double-edge...

...Stanley Thangaraj Abstract There is a growing literature on gender and feminist theory in the Middle East now. However, there has been little work on Kurdish diasporas and gender in the United States. This article examines how US diasporic Kurdish performances of gender and narrations of gender...

...Smadar Lavie This paper analyzes the failure of Israel’s Ashkenazi (Jewish, of European, Yiddish-speaking origin) feminist peace movement to work within the context of Middle East demographics, cultures, and histories and, alternately, the inabilities of the Mizrahi (Oriental) feminist movement...