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- The Pleasures of Domesticity: Household Appliances, Gender, and the
Democratization of Well-Being in Nasser's Egypt-
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Abstract: In 1962 the daily newspaper al-Ahram ran a reader contest to publicize the new household consumer goods produced in state-owned Egyptian factories. It featured an elaborate drawing of a home filled with an array of appliances and technologies. The house featured a well-appointed living room with a radio, television, air conditioner, and phonograph; a fully equipped kitchen with a semiautomatic washing machine, refrigerator, and gas stove, as well as an electric iron and a vacuum cleaner; and even a garage with a car. Such technologies had been available and advertised within the Egyptian marketplace since the mid-1940s as costly imports. After the 1952 revolution, however, state economic development plans ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-17T00:00:00-05:00
- Critical Pious Agency and Muslim Feminists' Activism in the Age of
Authoritarianism: The 2019 Feminist Night Walk in Turkey-
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Abstract: In the wake of local elections on March 31, 2019, for mayors and municipal boards, the Feminist Night Walk, held annually on International Women's Day by a broad spectrum of feminist organizations and women's groups, has sparked heated debates on the cultural authenticity of national values and feminist protest in Turkey. Thousands of women gathered in Istanbul on March 8, 2019, to celebrate International Women's Day, but the police forces fiercely dispersed the march by firing tear gas and pepper spray. In election rallies following the Feminist Night Walk, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and other officials of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), the party in power since 2002, accused women who took part in ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-17T00:00:00-05:00
- Saving the Modern Woman: Politics of Gender during Egypt's Transitional
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Abstract: While teaching a graduate seminar on gender and subjectivities at a university in a European capital, I showed my students a picture of two women seated on a bench and wearing light and colorful tailor-made dresses. Both dresses expose selected parts of the women's bodies—neck, shoulders, arms, and face. Products of the glamour industry highlight the shapes of their faces, and their bare legs glisten. The viewer immediately notices that the women are unveiled. This is because they are surrounded by three veiled women. The veiled women set a contrast to the two unveiled women—they are dressed in uniform clothing and fully covered. While the two unveiled women stare at the camera and hold colorful handmade-looking ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-17T00:00:00-05:00
- Productive Disengagement: Ethical Reflections on the Representations of
LGBTQ Iranian Lives-
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Abstract: This article addresses the scholarly representations of LGBTQ Iran.1 The arguments I make in the following pages can be broadly contextualized within the politicization of gender and sexual diversity in Muslim-majority countries, including the continued use of pinkwashing and the mobilization of human-rights discourse as a political strategy of intervention and surveillance on Middle Eastern/Muslim bodies (Grewal 2005; Puar 2007; Razack 2008). More specifically, I focus on how representations impact research subjects, and I question whether the benefits of knowledge production about LGBTQ Iranians necessarily justify the risks posed to them.My central argument is that disengaging with research can be a productive ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-17T00:00:00-05:00
- Review Editor's Note
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Abstract: It gives me great pleasure to join JMEWS, the journal of gender in the Middle East, as the editor of the reviews section. I am especially thankful to the editorial team for their invitation to this position and to Didem Havlioglu as my predecessor.The books, films, papers, conferences, and various scholarly debates reviewed in this section are not limited to the work that explicitly focuses on gender. For several decades, our predecessors have contributed to the literature on Middle Eastern studies with their interventions on how seemingly gender-neutral institutions such as the nation-state, secularism, modernity, and religion are, in fact, built on gender norms and patriarchal values. How should we evaluate works ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-17T00:00:00-05:00
- Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam: Bilateral
Descent and the Legacy of Fatima by Alyssa Gabbay (review)-
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Abstract: Alyssa Gabbay's new book consists of both descriptive and prescriptive research that analyzes the examples of bilateral descent in the medieval and early modern Islamic world (3). Aside from exemplifying three manifestations of bilateral descent, the book emphasizes Fatima as a possessor of female agency and an impressive precedent for recognizing bilateral descent in Sunni and Shiʿi societies.Alongside the introduction and the epilogue, the volume is organized into three main parts, each comprising two chapters. Gabbay's study first examines the Sunni and Shiʿi texts belonging to Islam's high textual tradition, including hadith collections, Qurʾan commentaries, and histories, while depicting Fatima fulfilling each ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-17T00:00:00-05:00
- The Age of Counter-revolution: States and Revolutions in the Middle East
by Jamie Allinson (review)-
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Abstract: The Arab revolutions were filled with aspirations for social justice, freedom, and human dignity. But most of the uprisings led to brutal repression, violent civil wars, and state collapse. Are they failed revolutions' Passive revolutions' Or, as has been argued, revolutionrestorations'Betrayal, loss, defeat, and tragedy are words that repeatedly appear in the literature on revolutions. Despite their commonness, the book tells us that these words are insufficient to explain the processes of these revolutions and their failure. A revolution cannot fail until the counterrevolution succeeds. Therefore, to understand a revolution's failure, we need to understand the success of the counterrevolution. Unfortunately ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-17T00:00:00-05:00
- Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul by Deniz
Yonucu (review)-
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Abstract: Police, Provocation, Politics is a groundbreaking contribution to the anthropology of policing, surveillance, and resistance. It combines long-term ethnographic research conducted in one of Istanbul's many revolutionary neighborhoods inhabited mainly by urban working-class Turkish and Kurdish Alevis with archival research and oral history narratives. The book's great strength lies in Deniz Yonucu's ability to situate counterinsurgency practices of Turkish police from the 1960s onward within a global context, revealing how these practices aim to create and maintain conflict in and among dissident communities. Policing in this book concerns itself not only with maintaining social order based on capitalism, racism ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-17T00:00:00-05:00
- Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran by
Niloofar Haeri (review)-
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Abstract: Say What Your Longing Heart Desires is an ethnography about the many ways Muslims pray and the relationship to the divine and the self, architected through prayer. It follows a group of educated middle-class women in postrevolutionary Tehran over ten years. Through the life experiences of five women, Niloofar Haeri asks the reader to question established analytic frameworks in the anthropology of Islam on agency, the discursive traditions, and the often underestimated impact ordinary women exercise in the hermeneutics of Islam and liturgy.Critical to this analysis, as Haeri points out, is the generational aspect of her study. The women she studied came of age in 1979, around the time of the revolution, which ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-17T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This, Alma Sinai says of her work Witness, chosen for this issue's cover, "is the first painting I did as an undergraduate student in 2010, while I was studying fine arts at RISD [Rhode Island School of Design]. A lot has changed since then, but also many things have stayed the same."I corresponded with Sinai in the last days of September 2022, during the early days of the mass protests that shook Iran in the fall—revolts that, most likely, will be remembered as a feminist revolution. These are, suddenly and again, moving and thrilling times for everyone who cares about women's and human rights, times filled with hope, admiration, and fear. That is certainly so for an artist like Sinai, who was born and raised in ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-17T00:00:00-05:00
- Al-ʿUcha: A Women Farmworkers' Strategy for Gendering Workers' Rights
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Abstract: On a warm, sunny day in the autumn of 2020, I met Hanan, a farmworker from Ouarzazate who migrated to southern Morocco's Souss Massa in the early 2000s.1 It was around noon, a few minutes before she entered her meeting with the agricultural company's representative and some of her fellow agricultural workers. Hanan had migrated in the hope of finding a job with the region's leading producer and exporter of high-value crops. She had worked for twenty years in the business, first on the farms and later in the packaging station of Soprofel, a French-owned agribusiness. While Hanan had her meeting, I stood outside with dozens of other women farmworkers who had worked for decades in this packaging station. Their stories ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-17T00:00:00-05:00
- Of Ants and Men: Sovereignty and Masculinity in Yusuf Idris and Other
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Abstract: The postcolony, it is said, is the site of great violence. Power is customarily exerted in the service of death, not life; bodies, not minds, are the central objects of its operations. Life is qualitatively different, worse: the absurd trumps the rational, phantasmagoria and spectacle reign, the body is in constant pain, life is wretched, and freedom is ephemeral. It is said. In his article "Necropolitics," and in an attempt to trace a new genealogy of state power, Achille Mbembe (2003) observes the continued operation of necropolitics in the contemporary postcolony, against the claim (Foucauldian but not necessarily held by Foucault) that sovereign power has receded in modernity. Necropolitics, here, describes the ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-17T00:00:00-05:00
- Toward New Feminist Aesthetics: Notes about the Photography of Sarah
Bahbah and Tamara Abdul Hadi-
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Abstract: Sarah Bahbah (b. 1991) is a Los Angeles-based Palestinian/Jordanian Australian artist known for her provocative photography, which deals with themes of female sexuality, romantic relationships, and millennial angst. Bahbah's photography style often features seductively posed subjects shot in ostentatious environments, alongside subtitles drawn from her personal experiences and writings.1 A nod to the aesthetics of romantic French films, her "narrative photography" is meant to appear cinematic, "as though [the photos] are froma film," and are imbued with a kinetic energy (DeFillipis 2021; Burns 2021). Bahbah gained recognition in 2015 following the release of her photography project Sex and Take Out, a playful ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-05-17T00:00:00-05:00
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