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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 174–192.
Published: 01 July 2018
...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...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 326–347.
Published: 01 November 2021
..., the article centers Syrian American women within processes of working-class formation and concludes that labor history of the interwar mahjar requires focus on spaces of social reproduction beyond the factory floor. There were those who perceived these worker education programs (and the women who engaged...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 376–394.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., laundry stealing, scams, and stealing from domestic employers. Given their low wages, poor and working-class women had difficulty meeting their material needs in a semicolonial capitalist urban economy even when they worked in legal occupations. In addition, the legal work most available to them...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 71–101.
Published: 01 November 2006
... 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...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 80–97.
Published: 01 March 2015
... by patriarchal power and cooperating through storytelling. Both narratives reflect their own forms of “multiple critique.” Tomorrow confronts the exploitation of the working class in postcolonial Morocco but does so in a way that disguises a frontal challenge to the masculinist context of the 1960s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 103–123.
Published: 01 July 2020
... by contesting official historical-masculinist narratives of their time. Missing Soluch offers readers a working-class feminist politics on the eve of revolutionary upheaval. My Share constructs a feminist politics critical of the postrevolutionary nation’s betrayal of Iranian women’s liberation despite women’s...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 37–62.
Published: 01 March 2012
... 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...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 36–70.
Published: 01 November 2011
... to appear
blind to or cleansed of class distinctions and ethnic difference, but are
increasingly obsessed with sexualized gender and a privatized and secu-
ritized ethics of the self. In the Middle East, a new mode of governance,
increasingly referred to as human security, works to blend...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 42–62.
Published: 01 March 2015
... in the novel is between a reactionary feudal class trying to maintain its crumbling dominance and members of the emerging urban social classes: educated middle- and working-class civil servants, poor migrants from the southern countryside, and bohemian leftist intellectuals, all united against the monarchy...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 19–40.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., and two, the steady decay of infrastructure and social services and how it renders middle-class life an impossibility. The article argues that by focusing on the intimate, Ibrahim’s novel and the TV adaptation both reveal the various forms of work women perform and make use of women’s work to critique...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 81–107.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Lihi Ben Shitrit Women’s activism in conservative religious-political movements poses a challenge to liberal feminism. Why do women participate in great numbers in political organizations that seem to limit women’s freedom and equality? My work with women activists in the Islamic Movement...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 221–223.
Published: 01 July 2018
... that includes court cases, official MSWC documents, and memoirs, Hammad weaves a historical account of how industrial work formed the modern Egyptian subject. Chapter 1 investigates the making of industrial masculinities. While the state legitimated aggressive masculinity for middle-class men, it condemned...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 111–114.
Published: 01 July 2011
..., but there
are two extremely rich stories of lower- and working-class women. As
the narrator of “When You Burn” notes, the intersections between class
and sexuality are multiple. She suggests, “Class is one of the most dif-
ficult problems visvis the lesbian community in Lebanon” (191). She
feels that other...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 20–45.
Published: 01 November 2005
... numbers of Syrian and Lebanese men and women in Egypt during
the last quarter of the nineteenth century (Baron 1994).
In Lebanon and Syria, economic hardship and the military con-
scription of men during World War I pushed women of the working
classes to work outside the home...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (2): 153–172.
Published: 01 July 2024
..., were not seen as compatible with the ideals of modern womanhood and have been associated with poverty. Nevertheless, in my research in northern Iran between 2016 and 2019, I encountered two main groups who continue to weave. The first group are weavers who mostly belong to the working class...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 343–345.
Published: 01 November 2015
... and noise” of working-class residents. Here we see Mohammed Atta, who in the decade before he flew an airplane into the World Trade Center designed an urban plan, replete with the gender and class segregation logics that were similar to the United Nation’s Development Programme’s “human-security” plan...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 108–110.
Published: 01 July 2012
...
of the viability of the Lebanese state structure by highlighting the ways
in which working class women were at the forefront of labor struggles
and were instrumental in bringing about new labor laws, conceptions of
citizenship, and gender relations.
Lebanon’s tobacco industry expanded...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 285–289.
Published: 01 July 2022
... the history of the political projects facilitating women’s participation in fitness and exercise—this time with a focus on Istanbul. To extend its populist appeal to traditional, religious, rural, and working-class constituencies, the Islamist Refah (Welfare) Party municipality expanded municipally owned...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 101–104.
Published: 01 July 2009
... pushed women out of this sector of the labor
market, which had historically been the largest employer of middle-
and working-class women. Meanwhile, a large number of working-class
women and women heads of household were, out of economic necessity,
obliged to work to support...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 104–106.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., Provocation, Politics is a groundbreaking contribution to the anthropology of policing, surveillance, and resistance. It combines long-term ethnographic research conducted in one of Istanbul’s many revolutionary neighborhoods inhabited mainly by urban working-class Turkish and Kurdish Alevis with archival...
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