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JMEWS - Journal of Middle East
Women's Studies - is the official publication of the Association for Middle
East Women's Studies. Its purpose is to advance 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.
Editor
Marcia C. Inhorn and I are pleased to unveil the new web site of the Journal
of Middle East Women’s Studies: www.jmews.org! The site offers updated
information about the publication, features authors and reviewers, and
facilitates new submissions. We invite you to visit!
We are also pleased to announce that the new issue of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (JMEWS), Volume 8: Number 1, is available on shelves and online. This special issue, entitled “Gendered Memory in the Middle East and North Africa: Cultural Norms, Social Practices, and Transnational Regimes,” is guest edited by Bettina Dennerlein and Sonja Hegasy. Below please find the table of contents:
Journal
of Middle East Women's Studies (8:1)
INTRODUCTION
- Bettina Dennerlein
and Sonja Hegasy
ARTICLES
- “Remembering
Violence, Negotiating Change: The Moroccan Equity and Reconciliation Commission
and the Politics of Gender” by Bettina Dennerlein
- “Fatna El Bouih and
the Work of Memory, Gender, and Reparation in Morocco” by Susan Slyomovics
- “‘We Want to be
Remembered as Strong Women, Not as Shepherds’: Women Anfal Survivors in
Kurdistan-Iraq Struggling for Agency and Acknowledgement” by Karin Mlodoch
- “Gendered Memories
and Masculinities: Kurdish Peshmerga on the Anfal Campaign in Iraq” by Andrea
Fischer-Tahir
- “The (Little) Militia Man: Memory and Militarized Masculinity in Lebanon” by Sune Haugbolle
If
you have not already done so, I encourage you to subscribe to JMEWS at: http://purchase.jstor.org/products.php?issn=1552-5864.
Please note that a JMEWS subscription is complimentary with an
Association of Middle East Women's Studies (AMEWS) membership.
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Bonnie
Rose Schulman
Managing
Editor
Journal
of Middle East Women's Studies
Council
on Middle East Studies
Whitney
and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies
Yale University