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JMEWS - Journal of Middle East Women's Studies

Volume 8, Number 2 (Spring 2012)

ESSAYS

• Thinking Intentionality: Arab Women’s Subjectivity and its Discontents, Suad Joseph, p. 1-25
• Saving Egypt’s Village Girls: Humanity, Rights, and Gendered Vulnerability in a Global Youth Initiative, Rania Kassab Sweis, p. 26-50
• Daughters of the Right Path: Family Law, Homosocial Publics, and the Ethics of Intimacy in the Works of Shi῾i Revivalist Bint Al-Huda, Sara Pursley, p. 51-77
• Palestinian Working Women in Israel: National Oppression and Social Restraints, Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud, p. 78-101

BOOK REVIEWS

• Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam, Reviewed by: Nadia Maria El Cheikh, american University of Beirut, p. 102-104
• Women, the Recited Qur’an, and Islamic Music in Indonesia, Reviewed by: Shayna Silverstein, University of Chicago, p. 105-107
• Militant Women of a Fragile Nation, Reviewed by: Nadya Sbaiti, Smith College, p. 108-110
• Umm Kulthum: Artistic Agency and the Shaping of an Arab Legend, 1967-2007, Reviewed by: Alyson E. Jones, University of Michigan, p. 110-113
• Gender and Identity in North Africa: Postcolonialism and Feminism in Maghrebi Women’s Literature, Reviewed by: Edwige Tamalet Talbayev, Yale University, p. 113-116
• A Quiet Revolution: The Veil’s Resurgence, from the Middle East to America, Reviewed by: Joan Wallach Scott, Institute for Advanced Study, p. 116-119
• Working Out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870-1940, Reviewed by: Nadia Guessous, New York University, p. 119-122