Journal ArticleJerusalem Quarterly · May 2024
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Although until the late 1960s women's reproductive health care had been largely the domain of Palestinian women healers, midwives, and nurse-midwives, the contemporary reproductive healthcare system in Palestine is medicalized, masculinized, and commodifie ...
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Book · November 30, 2021
Bringing together a vivid array of analog and non-traditional sources, including colonial archives, newspaper reports, literature, oral histories, and interviews, Buried in the Red Dirt tells a story of life, death, reproduction and missing bodies and expe ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Journal of Middle East Studies · May 1, 2020
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This article provides a close reading of two popular Egyptian action films, al-Almani (The German, 2012), the first blockbuster since the 25 January 2011 revolution, and Qalb al-Asad (Lion heart, 2013), both starring Muhammad Ramadan as a socially produced ...
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Journal ArticleGender, Place and Culture · October 3, 2018
This article uses a feminist spatial approach attentive to masculine affect and difference to analyze the language, cultural production, and practices of the two largest Ultras football fan groups in Egypt–White Knights (affiliated with Zamalek Sporting Cl ...
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Chapter · October 7, 2016
As the 2011 uprisings in North Africa reverberated across the Middle East, a diverse cross section of women and girls publicly disputed gender and sexual norms in novel, unauthorized, and often shocking ways. In a series of case studies ranging from Tunisi ...
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Journal ArticleComparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East · December 29, 2015
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Based on analysis of scholarly and primary sources that include July 2011 and January and February 2014 fieldwork in Cairo, this article examines civil as a word with multiple synchronic meanings and shifts in valence in Egypt between January 2011 and July ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Middle East Women's Studies · January 1, 2014
Since the 1980s, an explosion in state, international, and nongovernmental campaigns and programs propose to increase women's rights and protections in Arab countries. Women and women's rights activists often invite and appeal to male-dominated states to r ...
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OtherInternational Journal of Middle East Studies · May 28, 2009
The Arab Human Development Report 2005: Towards the Rise of Women in the Arab World (AHDR 2005), published in Arabic with English and French translations, was launched at the end of 2006. With a title carefully crafted to avoid Western development buzzword ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Journal of Middle East Studies · May 28, 2009
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The researchers and writers of the Arab Human Development Report 2005 (AHDR 2005) include activists, social critics, intellectuals, and feminists who aspire for izdihar (flourishing) in the Arab world "based on a peaceful process of negotiation for redistr ...
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Journal ArticleFeminist Review · November 1, 2005
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This paper focuses on representations by and deployments of the four Palestinian women who during the first four months of 2002 killed themselves in organized attacks against Israeli military personnel or civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories o ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Journal of Sociology · January 1, 2001
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While there is an extensive literature addressing gender and women in social movements, there is very little addressing the impact of such participation on individual women in the aftermath of involvement. This article explores the individual impact of soc ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Journal of Middle East Studies · January 1, 2000
The victory which the Zionists have achieved…lies not in the superiority of one people over another, but rather in the superiority of one system over another. The reason for this victory is that the roots of Zionism are grounded in modern Western life whil ...
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Chapter · 1998
This collection provides, the everyday practice of structural and cultural hierarchies is revealed through empirical case studies by cutting edge sociologists. ...
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Other · August 1997
This dissertation explores the relationship between nationalism and feminism by focusing on the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) and the Palestinian Federation of Women's Action Committees (PFWAC) in the Occupied Territories. The stu ...
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