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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies

 

Edited by Nancy Gallagher and Sondra Hale

Published Triannually

ISSN: 1552-5864
E-ISSN: 1558-9579

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 

 

JMEWS advances the fields of Middle East Women’s studies, gender studies, and Middle East studies through contributions from multiple disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. It is the official publication of the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS). A subscription to JMEWS in print or combined print/electronic format is a benefit of membership in the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies. To join AMEWS and subscribe to JMEWS, please click here.

 

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VOLUME 6, ISSUE 1

ESSAYS


 

The Active Social Life of “Muslim Women's Rights”: A Plea for Ethnography, Not Polemic, with Cases from Egypt and Palestine

Lila Abu-Lughod

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Jan 2010, Vol. 6, No. 1: 1–45.

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Immodest Modesty: Accommodating Dissent and the ‘Abaya-as-Fashion in the Arab Gulf States

Noor Al-Qasimi

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Jan 2010, Vol. 6, No. 1: 46–74.

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A Modern Master of Islamic Calligraphy and Her Peers

David Simonowitz

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Jan 2010, Vol. 6, No. 1: 75–102.

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Forough Goes West: The Legacy of Forough Farrokhzad in Iranian Diasporic Art and Literature

Jasmin Darznik

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Jan 2010, Vol. 6, No. 1: 103–116.

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BRIEF COMMUNICATION


 

Laughing Matters: Defamation and the Secular Subject in the Global European Union

Dina Al-Kassim

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Jan 2010, Vol. 6, No. 1: 117–128.

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BOOK REVIEWS


 

Mehri Honarbin-Holliday Becoming Visible in Iran: Women in Contemporary Iranian Society

Mastoureh Fathi

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Jan 2010, Vol. 6, No. 1: 129–131.

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Wanda Krause Women in Civil Society: The State, Islamism, and Networks in the UAE

Neha Vora

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Jan 2010, Vol. 6, No. 1: 131–134.

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Maha A. Z. Yamani Polygamy and Law in Contemporary Saudi Arabia

Zahia Smail Salhi

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Jan 2010, Vol. 6, No. 1: 134–137.

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Jamillah Karim American Muslim Women: Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah

Chloe Safier

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Jan 2010, Vol. 6, No. 1: 137–140.

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Martina Rieker and Kamran Asdar Ali, eds. Gendering Urban Space in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa

Nahrain Al-Mousawi

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Jan 2010, Vol. 6, No. 1: 140–144.

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Contributors

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Jan 2010, Vol. 6, No. 1: 145–146.

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Erratum

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Jan 2010, Vol. 6, No. 1: 147–147.

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Submission Guidelines

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Jan 2010, Vol. 6, No. 1: 148–148.

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