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Women Doctors and the Medical Profession in Iraq during the First Half of the Twentieth Century Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Sara Farhan
Abstract This article explores the history of Iraqi women’s participation in the medical profession as accredited physicians in the first half of the twentieth century. It begins with a discussion of women’s exclusion from late Ottoman medical education faculties and their reliance on lay practice as a form of medical training. Women’s ascension in the medical profession was further thwarted by colonial
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A Feminist Ethos of Point Zero Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Ranjana Khanna
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In Memory of a Woman Doctor Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Robert J. C. Young
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From The Hidden Face of Eve to AWSA Activism to Tahrir Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Margot Badran
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“Why Don’t You Go to Nursing School?” Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Liat Kozma,Benny Nuriely
Abstract The article analyzes the gendered experience at Hebrew University Medical School in its first two decades, 1950–70. Contrary to earlier studies on women in medicine, which focused on immigrant doctors to late Ottoman and mandatory Palestine, gendering the future cadre of doctors in post-1948 Israel has not been discussed. Based on archival documents, newspapers of the period, and interviews
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The Daughter of Isis at Duke University Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 miriam cooke
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A Word from the President Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Fatima Sadiqi
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A Much-Needed Voice of Resistance Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Evelyne Accad
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The Female Imperial Agent and the Intricacies of Power Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Hagit Krik
Abstract British women have hitherto been almost absent from the history of British colonialism in the Middle East, and particularly in Mandate Palestine (1918–48). By using an individual tale of a British nurse as a vantage point, the article explores the personal and professional experiences of British nurses in Mandate Palestine and scrutinizes their contested status. As women, as British, as medical
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Under the Skin: Feminist Art and Art Histories from the Middle East and North Africa Today Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Iris Gilad
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Nursing (Inter)nationalism in Iran, 1916–1947 Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Lydia Wytenbroek
Abstract In the first half of the twentieth century, American missionary nurses, working under the auspices of the Presbyterian Mission to Iran, established areas of educational innovation within mission medicine and Iranian health care. Drawing on Presbyterian mission records, this article considers missionary nurses’ efforts to cultivate international nursing standards in Iran between 1916, when
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An Ode to Nawal El Saadawi Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Zillah Eisenstein
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What I Will Never Forget Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Walter D. Mignolo
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Women and Gender in Iraq: Between Nation-Building and Fragmentation Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Marta Agosti
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The Everyday Makings of Heteronormativity: Cross-Cultural Explorations of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Eirini Avramopoulou
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Gendered Struggles over the Medical Profession in the Modern Middle East and North Africa Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Liat Kozma,Nicole Khayat
Abstract Historians of the professionalization of medicine in colonized regions, including the Middle East, have mostly focused on male practitioners, whereas histories of women in the medical professions are mostly centered in Western societies. The present issue examines histories of female medical practitioners by looking at case studies spanning the twentieth century from Algeria, Palestine, Israel
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Comparative and Integrative History in Ottoman and Turkish Women’s and Gender Studies Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Gülşah Şenkol Torunoğlu
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From Afghan Pan-Islamism to Turkish Feminism Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Marya Hannun
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Syrian Men’s Disability and Their Masculine Trajectories in the Context of Displacement in Jordan and Turkey Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Aitemad Muhanna-Matar
Abstract This article analyzes the relationship between men’s physical disability and the trajectories of negotiating masculinities in the context of Syrian refugee displacement in Jordan and Turkey. The article draws its analysis from the personal narratives of five displaced Syrian refugee men who sustained injuries during the war in Syria. It explores how Syrian refugee men with disabilities remake
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The Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Mostafa Abedinifard
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Muslim Fashionistas in Contemporary Turkey Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Merve Kütük-Kuriş
Abstract Turkey’s Islamic fashion market transformed during the 2010s with the entry of young, bourgeois, fashion-conscious Muslim female entrepreneurs. As designers, manufacturers, and retailers, these “Muslim fashionistas” not only gained the attention of young Muslim women but also became lifestyle gurus, projecting images of the successful entrepreneur, the ideal mother, the benevolent philanthropist
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Transnational Dimensions of Moroccan Gender History Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Anny Gaul
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Syro-Lebanese Women’s Transnational and International Collaborations at the League of Nations Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Nova Robinson
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Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal IslamLGBTI Rights in Turkey: Sexuality and the State in the Middle East Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Sinan Goknur
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Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran-Iraq War Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Maryam Zehtabi
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The Conflation of Single Mothers and Prostitutes in Morocco Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Ginger Feather
I nMorocco legal codes and dominant discourses conflate singlemothers (om ʾazbaʾ) with prostitutes, creating a web of discrimination and marginalization for nevermarried women who are pregnant or have given birth. In contrast, single fathers enjoy legal and social impunity for any sexual transgressions. As I began to unravel the material, legal, and institutional roadblocks before single mothers, I
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Over Forty Years of Resisting Compulsory Veiling Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Claudia Yaghoobi
Abstract While text-based and cyberspace campaigns against compulsory veiling in Iran have received much attention, Iranian diasporic creative writers have also engaged in this resistance through their writings, but they have remained almost unacknowledged. This article argues that diasporic literary narratives have functioned as part of what has led to today’s online platforms and cyberactivism. The
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Serpouhi Dussap’s Mayda; or, The Birth of Armenian Women’s Literature through the Palimpsestic Narrative of Feminism Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Maral Aktokmakyan
Abstract Mayda (1883), Serpouhi Dussap’s first eponymous novel, quickly met the patriarchal reaction among the Armenian male intelligentsia of Constantinople over the issue of female emancipation. Today the significance of Dussap’s best-known novel and feminist ideology is both welcome and appreciated yet not with much gratifying analysis of the literary and intellectual ventures invested in this first-time
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Postfeminism à la Turca Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Burcu Dabak Özdemir
Abstract This essay analyzes how postfeminism is constructed on a visual level in the Turkish context. It uses theories of postfeminism to discuss new popular romantic comedies of Turkish cinema by comparing the new female protagonists with the women portrayed in Yeşilçam melodramas. Three films—Kocan Kadar Konuş (dir. Kıvanç Baruönü, 2014), Hadi İnşallah (dir. Ali Taner Baltacı, 2014), and Aşk Nerede
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The “Barbaric” Dabke Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Shayna Silverstein
Abstract This essay analyzes how dance, gender, and state power function together as a significant node of critique in recent cultural production that addresses authoritarianism in Syria. Identifying the symbolic trope of dabke, a popular dance ubiquitous in Syrian life, selected films, literature, and choreography, this essay argues that the discussed works dislodge dabke from its feminized association
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Intelligent Souls? Feminist Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century English Literature Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Miriam Cooke
Is the question mark in the title of Samara Anne Cahill’s book a clue, as it would be in a crossword puzzle? After finishing this thought-provoking survey of the role of Muslim stereotypes in shaping seventeenthto nineteenth-century English writers’ arguments for and against the immortality of women’s souls, I read the punctuation mark as a joke or, better, an irony. Cahill is highlighting and deconstructing
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Peaceful Families: American Muslim Efforts against Domestic Violence Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Sarah Eltantawi
Juliane Hammer’s Peaceful Families weaves ethnographic research on incidences of and responses to domestic violence (DV) in the American Muslim community within a set of interlocking theoretical questions concerning the relationship between Qurʾanic exegesis and action, the efficacy of anti-DV initiatives in Islamic spaces and among Muslims in non-Islamic spaces, and the status ofMuslim bodies—both
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Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Evren Savcı
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Popular Culture, Gender, and Revolution in Egypt Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Nicola Pratt
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Rendering Absence in the War on Terror Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Amira Jarmakani
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America’s Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Health on the Margins Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Gabrielle Printz
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From Guerrilla Girls to Zainabs Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Arielle Gordon
Abstract Scholars have long accounted for representations of women in the Iranian Revolution by categorically classifying them as “devout mothers” or “heroic sisters,” embodied respectively in the Shiʾi archetypes of Fatima and Zainab. However, a closer look at images of militant women finds them residing within the traditions of their time, as part and parcel of an era of liberation movements in which
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Popularizing and Promoting Nene Hatun as an Iconic Turkish Mother in Early Cold War Turkey Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Gözde Emen-Gökatalay
Abstract This article traces Nene Hatun’s popularity and legacy for women’s image in Turkey. The rediscovery of Nene Hatun and the political construction of her public image during the rule of the Democratic Party (DP), as an icon of anticommunist Turkish mothers, not only maps out the gendered effects of intensified anticommunist policies in Turkey in the period under consideration but also showcases
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Temporary Marriage in Iran: Gender and Body Politics in Modern Iranian Film and Literature Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Leila Zonouzi
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Lalla Essaydi’s Bullets and Bullets Revisited Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Naïma Hachad
Abstract In Bullets and Bullets Revisited (2009–14) the Moroccan-born artist Lalla Essaydi invites the onlooker to reflect on the power dynamics of image production and consumption in a globalizing visual culture. As in the artist’s previous series, the photographs present Moroccan women in interior spaces and poses made familiar to an international audience by nineteenth-century European paintings
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Turkish Delights with an Aftertaste Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Olivia Landry
Abstract Hop-Çiki-Yaya Polisiyesi is a Turkish crime novel series by Mehmet Murat Somer that appeared between 2003 and 2004. The series is set in the trans world of Istanbul, and the hero/heroine is a gender-nonbinary sleuth. The present essay explores the paradox at the heart of this series, which on the one hand offers an affirmative portrait of a sex-positive and sociopolitically mobile trans world
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The Mute E of a Listening Presence Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Albertine Fox
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The Birth of a Character Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Maryam Zehtabi Sabeti Moqaddam
Abstract In Iran—as never before in the history of the country—prostitutes gained notorious visibility in twentieth-century Persian literature. Fixation on the image of the prostitute created a wealth of literature beginning in 1924 with the first Persian urban social novel, The Horrible Tehran, by Murtiza Mushfiq Kazimi. Associating prostitution with economic corruption, political and administrative
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Modern Bodies and Changing Identities Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Rania Jaber
I n March 2018 the School of Architecture and Design at the Lebanese American University (LAU) hosted a one-day conference in Beirut titled “Modern Bodies: Dress, Nation, Empire, Sexuality, and Gender in the Modern Middle East.” The conference was jointly convened by Reina Lewis, professor of cultural studies at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, and Yasmine Nachabe Taan
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Decorative Arts of the Tunisian École: Fabrications of Modernism, Gender, and Power Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Sara Rahnama
Jessica Gerschultz’s Decorative Arts of the Tunisian École maps out a matrix in which highbrowart, artisanal production, and the stateworked together to elevate the decorative arts in postindependence Tunisia. At the center of this matrix was a new generation of young Tunisian women who could be integrated into Tunisian society through a modernized version of the artisanal work of their mothers and
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Gender Relations in Racialized Ghagar Communities of Egypt Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Alexandra Parrs
abstract:This article reflects on gender relations among Egyptian Dom/Ghagar. It is based on an examination of the representations of Dom women by European Orientalists in Egyptian movies, Egyptian media, and ethnographic research among Dom communities in Egypt, particularly narratives describing marital practices: bride price, divorce, polygyny, and early marriage. The article confronts the discourse
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Femicide and the Speaking State Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Sumru Atuk
abstract:High rates of gender-based violence and sexist political rhetoric are central features of contemporary Turkey. This article explores the complex relationship between the two by drawing on the literature that investigates the (re)making of the category of “woman” in the Middle East and the scholarship on femicide/feminicide. The article employs critical discourse analysis of ruling politicians’
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Cover Art Concept Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Ellen McLarney
T he Egyptian Laila El Sadda is part of the Art Trio, a collective of women artists that also includes al-Assmaa Taki Deen and Mariam Mahdy. El Sadda’s art reflects her practice, showing the intimacy of women’s collectives and sociability. Her paintings depict groups of women with large, Horus-like (or khamsa/ hand of Fatima–like) eyes, looking out of the frame with clear, serene gazes. As a focal
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Soundscapes of the Iranian Revolution Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Ellen McLarney
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Feminist Historical Writing in Postrevolutionary Iran Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Alborz Ghandehari
AbstractThis article argues that Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s Missing Soluch and Parinoush Saniee’s My Share are landmark works of feminist historical writing in Iran that disrupt official narratives in the country regarding the revolutionary project. Despite the different positions Dowlatabadi and Saniee occupy in the Persian literary field, both Missing Soluch and My Share reflect the ethos of the 1979
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Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Writing History in the Middle East Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Soha Bayoumi
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Images of an Undocumented Revolution Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Ellen McLarney,Negar Mottahedeh
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Riding the Korean Wave in Iran Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Gi Yeon Koo
abstract:This study explores the Korean Wave and fandom in the Islamic Republic of Iran. It follows Iranian women’s consumption of Korean popular culture in the context of their general pop-culture consumption patterns and how they create a fan culture through social media and pop culture. This study is based on data collected through anthropological fieldwork in Tehran. User-generated content on social
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Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Tara Stephan
Eve Krakowski’s Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt artfully uses sources from the Cairo Geniza to reconstruct the crucialmoment of girls’andwomen’sfirstmarriage, a period that she defines as “adolescence.” This study is a refreshing reexamination of some of the ideas and arguments about medieval Jewish society that S. D. Goitein (1967–93) initially presented in his monumental Mediterranean Society. For
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New Publications on Women’s Activism in Palestine Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Lihi Ben Shitrit
Two recent books on Palestinian women’s activism may appear on the surface to overlap significantly. However, these two works complement each other both chronologically and in terms of the arenas of activism they cover. In this respect, together they offer a comprehensive landscape of the history and current realities of women’s activism in Palestine, while raising questions and suggesting future research
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Cover Art Concept Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Fakhri Haghani
T his issue’s cover art, Samira Alikhanzadeh’s Ata and Aziz Troupe, 1291 A.P., part of the artist’s series Centennial, illustrates the centennial celebration of the emergence of female musicians and entertaining troupes in modern Iran. In this 2013 series of print images, Alikhanzadeh delineates memories of the past not as a set of historical facts and examples but as a series of problems and interpretations
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Women in Islamic Biographical Collections: From Ibn Saʿd to Who’s Who Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Kecia Ali
Twenty-five years have elapsed since the initial publication of Ruth Roded’s Women in Islamic Biographical Collections: From Ibn Saʿd to Who’s Who (1994), here republished largely unchanged. Following close on the heels of Nikki Keddie and Beth Baron’s (1991) anthologyWomen inMiddle Eastern History and Leila Ahmed’s (1992) germinalWomen and Gender in Islam, Roded’s survey of an understudied genre became
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Simin Daneshvar and Shahrnush Parsipur in Translation Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Leila Sadegh Beigi
abstract:Contemporary Iranian women writers contribute to the Iranian literary tradition by writing about women’s roles during the political upheavals leading up to and after the 1979 Revolution. In Simin Daneshvar’s Savushun and Shahrnush Parsipur’s Women without Men, the authors meticulously employ colloquial sexist diction to expose the connection between sexism and violence against women. The portrayal
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Economic Citizenship: Neoliberal Paradoxes of Empowerment Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Sara Salem
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Liminalities of Gender and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Iranian Photography: Desirous Bodies Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (IF 0.815) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Farshid Kazemi