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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
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Scholarly Works - Journal articles


A predictive, multi-source, attack-level model to quantify and characterize the injury burden and need for reconstructive surgery in Gaza.

Journal article EClinicalMedicine · March 2026 BACKGROUND: Since October 2023, the war in Gaza has produced a massive Palestinian civilian injury burden and created a large need for reconstructive surgery. It has also crippled an already fragile healthcare system and reduced its capacity to provide rec ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Development of a Multinational Collaboration Supporting Reconstructive Surgery in Response to the 2023-2025 War in Gaza.

Journal article Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open · February 2026 BACKGROUND: The escalation of conflict in Gaza since October 2023 has devastated an already fragile healthcare system and generated an overwhelming civilian need for reconstructive surgical care. Traditional humanitarian approaches often defer reconstructi ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

"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

Masculine love and sensuous reason: the affective and spatial politics of Egyptian Ultras football fans

Journal article Gender 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 ... 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

Bargaining with the devil: States and intimate life

Journal article Journal 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 ... Full text Open Access 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

Women and gender in early Jewish and Palestinian nationalism

Journal article MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL · December 1, 2004 Link to item 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

Modernity and gender in arab accounts of the 1948 and 1967 defeats

Journal article International 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 ... 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