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Frances S. Hasso

Frances S. Hasso

Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies
Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies
Box 90760, Durham, NC 27708
118 East Duke Building, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours By appointment on weekdays.  

Featured Works

"Obstetricians Are Always Taking a Position Against Us": The Politics of Contemporary Midwifery and Childbirth in Palestine

Journal article Jerusalem Quarterly · May 2024 Featured Publication 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 ... Open Access Link to item Cite

“I have ambition”: Muhammad Ramadan's proletarian masculinities in postrevolution Egyptian cinema

Journal article International Journal of Middle East Studies · May 1, 2020 Featured Publication 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 ... Full text Open Access Cite

Civil and the Limits of Politics in Revolutionary Egypt

Journal article Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East · December 29, 2015 Featured Publication 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 ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Empowering governmentalities rather than women: The Arab Human Development Report 2005 and western development logics

Journal article International Journal of Middle East Studies · May 28, 2009 Featured Publication 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 ... Full text Open Access Cite

'Culture Knowledge' and the Violence of Imperialism: Revisiting The Arab Mind

Journal article MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies · 2007 Featured Publication Open Access Link to item Cite

Discursive and political deployments by/of the 2002 Palestinian women suicide bombers/martyrs

Journal article Feminist Review · November 1, 2005 Featured Publication 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 ... Full text Open Access Cite

Feminist generations? The long-term impact of social movement involvement on Palestinian women's lives

Journal article American Journal of Sociology · January 1, 2001 Featured Publication 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 ... Full text Open Access Cite

The "women's front" - Nationalism, feminism, and modernity in Palestine

Journal article GENDER & SOCIETY · August 1998 Featured Publication Full text Open Access Link to item Cite