JMEWS : Volume 17, Issue 3, November 1, 2021

November 1, 2021

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About the Journal:
JMEWS is the official journal of the Association for Middle East Women's Studies.

This interdisciplinary journal advances the fields of Middle East gender, sexuality, and women's studies through the contributions of academics, artists, and activists from around the globe working in the interpretive social sciences and humanities. JMEWS publishes area-specific research informed by transnational feminist, sexuality, masculinity, and cultural theories and scholarship. It is particularly interested in work that employs historical, ethnographic, literary, textual, and visual analyses and methodologies. The journal also publishes book and film reviews, review essays, and dissertation abstracts that highlight theoretical innovation in gender and sexuality studies focused on the Middle East. 

 

ARTICLES

Syrian Men’s Disability and Their Masculine Trajectories in the Context of Displacement in Jordan and Turkey 

Aitemad Muhanna-Matar

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Ladies Aid as Labor History: Working-Class Formation in the Mahjar 

Stacy D. Fahrenthold

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Facing the Past: Aesthetic Possibility and the Image of “Super-Survivor” 

Nora Tataryan Aslan

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Beauty Standards in Egypt: Popular Consumer Culture and the Representation of Women 

Mona L. Russell

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Muslim Fashionistas in Contemporary Turkey: Devoted Mothers, Benevolent Philanthropists, and Leisure Enthusiasts 

Merve Kütük-Kuriş

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A Delicate Balancing Act: Women’s Rights and US Military Intervention in the Arab World 

Amaney JamalIrfan Nooruddin

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REVIEWS

The Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan 

Mostafa Abedinifard

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Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran-Iraq War 

Maryam Zehtabi

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Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam
LGBTI Rights in Turkey: Sexuality and the State in the Middle East
 

Sinan Goknur

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THIRD SPACE

Cover Art Concept 

Beya Khalifa

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ROUNDTABLE: GENDERED TRANSNATIONALISMS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA

Introduction 

Nova RobinsonAnny Gaul

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From Afghan Pan-Islamism to Turkish Feminism: Examining Transnational Solidarities in the Early Twentieth Century 

Marya Hannun

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Afifa’s Migration: Syrian Prostitutes and Port Said’s “White Slave Trade” in Local and Transnational Perspective 

Lucia Carminati

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Syro-Lebanese Women’s Transnational and International Collaborations at the League of Nations 

Nova Robinson

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Transnational Dimensions of Moroccan Gender History: Sources, Access, Politics 

Anny Gaul

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Comparative and Integrative History in Ottoman and Turkish Women’s and Gender Studies 

Gülşah Şenkol Torunoğlu

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