Pub Date : 2023-10-30DOI: 10.1215/15525864-10815665
Khaoula Bengezi, Laila Mourad, Rawan Qaddoura
{"title":"Collective Reflections on the (Re)imagining Feminist Futurities Conference","authors":"Khaoula Bengezi, Laila Mourad, Rawan Qaddoura","doi":"10.1215/15525864-10815665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-10815665","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45155,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Middle East Womens Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136102968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-30DOI: 10.1215/15525864-10815455
Anne Marie E. Butler
Abstract The Tunisian state and Tunisian cultural systems that predate it dictate social and material realities for Tunisian women. Where these systems of authority conflict, a woman may feel that she is herself in the reality she inhabits, yet she is also an other who surveils herself, resulting in a self/other dichotomy. Surrealism, while frequently associated with early twentieth-century Europe, is a liberatory approach that stretches across global art, poetry, and literature. One of its primary objectives is to challenge accepted realities. This article argues that artworks by the contemporary Tunisian artists Meriem Bouderbala and Najah Zarbout invoke the aesthetics and ideologies of surrealism to mediate the ground between the embodied self and the observer self through portrayals of female sexuality as constituted by multilayered selves. In doing so, they evoke a surrealist history of vision, doubling, and mirroring, reframing the female body as an absent presence that eludes surveillance and regulation.
{"title":"The Doubling Self","authors":"Anne Marie E. Butler","doi":"10.1215/15525864-10815455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-10815455","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Tunisian state and Tunisian cultural systems that predate it dictate social and material realities for Tunisian women. Where these systems of authority conflict, a woman may feel that she is herself in the reality she inhabits, yet she is also an other who surveils herself, resulting in a self/other dichotomy. Surrealism, while frequently associated with early twentieth-century Europe, is a liberatory approach that stretches across global art, poetry, and literature. One of its primary objectives is to challenge accepted realities. This article argues that artworks by the contemporary Tunisian artists Meriem Bouderbala and Najah Zarbout invoke the aesthetics and ideologies of surrealism to mediate the ground between the embodied self and the observer self through portrayals of female sexuality as constituted by multilayered selves. In doing so, they evoke a surrealist history of vision, doubling, and mirroring, reframing the female body as an absent presence that eludes surveillance and regulation.","PeriodicalId":45155,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Middle East Womens Studies","volume":"13 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136104395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1215/15525864-10462341
David Stenner
abstract:A public debate about the social status of women accompanied the emergence of mass politics in Morocco after World War II. The Arabic-language press argued that true sovereignty required the liberation of the kingdom’s female citizens from the shackles of tradition. Taking inspiration from developments across the decolonizing world, nationalists promoted women’s “rights and duties” to build a “new Morocco” beyond the constraints of French colonialism. State formation became dependent on a profound social transformation. Following independence in 1956, however, King Mohammed V gradually replaced the public conversation about female emancipation with a narrative that began and ended with the royal palace, thereby constructing a unique version of state feminism that persists today.
{"title":"Decolonizing the Moroccan Woman: Female Liberation and National Sovereignty in the Modern Maghrib","authors":"David Stenner","doi":"10.1215/15525864-10462341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-10462341","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:A public debate about the social status of women accompanied the emergence of mass politics in Morocco after World War II. The Arabic-language press argued that true sovereignty required the liberation of the kingdom’s female citizens from the shackles of tradition. Taking inspiration from developments across the decolonizing world, nationalists promoted women’s “rights and duties” to build a “new Morocco” beyond the constraints of French colonialism. State formation became dependent on a profound social transformation. Following independence in 1956, however, King Mohammed V gradually replaced the public conversation about female emancipation with a narrative that began and ended with the royal palace, thereby constructing a unique version of state feminism that persists today.","PeriodicalId":45155,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Middle East Womens Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"185 - 208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46954077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1215/15525864-10462425
Aminath Nisha Zadhy-Çepoğlu
Magdalena Suerbaum’s book presents an absorbing discussion rooted in masculinities and displacement and underlines the gender-specific challenges that displaced Syrian men face in Egypt. Through an intersectional lens, Suerbaum asks how men engage with the expectations surrounding masculinities and how their notions of masculinities (and femininity) shape the performance of their gender. Using detailed vignettes she paints an evocative picture of how displacement disrupts Syrian men’s aspiration for a middle-class heteropatriarchal family structure and how they cope with the impairments that displacement brings to their masculine sense of self. In successive chapters Suerbaum highlights how notions about class in the Syrian context accompany displacement, transmute in the Egyptian context, and are deployed to renegotiate masculinities as a displaced person. Chapter 1 introduces a chief feature of everyday life in Syria: the military’s omnipresence shaping Syrian boys through childhood and culminating in the military service mandatory for all adultmales. Even though themen come from an environmentwhere the militarization is normalized and deployed into mundane civil life, Suerbaum’s interlocutors shatter the widespread notion that connects masculinities to militarization, leading to her argument on the elasticity of masculinities. In the place of masculinity linked to patriotism, Syrian men approached the civil unrest and armed conflict by adopting alternative masculinities, expressing passivity, rejecting violence, and vehemently embracing fatherhood. In Suerbaum’s presentation, middle-class men are burdened by the interruption to their lives that military service causes, leading to masculinities that choose passivity and idealize fatherhood. In chapter 2 she homes in on the experiences of refugeehood, another interruption for middle-class men, who are prevented from attaining their ideals of masculinities in the lived reality of precarity. While the impetus to flee violent conflict is
{"title":"Masculinities and Displacement in the Middle East: Syrian Refugees in Egypt by Magdalena Suerbaum (review)","authors":"Aminath Nisha Zadhy-Çepoğlu","doi":"10.1215/15525864-10462425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-10462425","url":null,"abstract":"Magdalena Suerbaum’s book presents an absorbing discussion rooted in masculinities and displacement and underlines the gender-specific challenges that displaced Syrian men face in Egypt. Through an intersectional lens, Suerbaum asks how men engage with the expectations surrounding masculinities and how their notions of masculinities (and femininity) shape the performance of their gender. Using detailed vignettes she paints an evocative picture of how displacement disrupts Syrian men’s aspiration for a middle-class heteropatriarchal family structure and how they cope with the impairments that displacement brings to their masculine sense of self. In successive chapters Suerbaum highlights how notions about class in the Syrian context accompany displacement, transmute in the Egyptian context, and are deployed to renegotiate masculinities as a displaced person. Chapter 1 introduces a chief feature of everyday life in Syria: the military’s omnipresence shaping Syrian boys through childhood and culminating in the military service mandatory for all adultmales. Even though themen come from an environmentwhere the militarization is normalized and deployed into mundane civil life, Suerbaum’s interlocutors shatter the widespread notion that connects masculinities to militarization, leading to her argument on the elasticity of masculinities. In the place of masculinity linked to patriotism, Syrian men approached the civil unrest and armed conflict by adopting alternative masculinities, expressing passivity, rejecting violence, and vehemently embracing fatherhood. In Suerbaum’s presentation, middle-class men are burdened by the interruption to their lives that military service causes, leading to masculinities that choose passivity and idealize fatherhood. In chapter 2 she homes in on the experiences of refugeehood, another interruption for middle-class men, who are prevented from attaining their ideals of masculinities in the lived reality of precarity. While the impetus to flee violent conflict is","PeriodicalId":45155,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Middle East Womens Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"244 - 246"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49153664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1215/15525864-10462383
Işıl Karacan
{"title":"The Power of the People: Everyday Resistance and Dissent in the Making of Modern Turkey, 1923–1938","authors":"Işıl Karacan","doi":"10.1215/15525864-10462383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-10462383","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45155,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Middle East Womens Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48929952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1215/15525864-10462326
Hande Eslen‐Ziya, Nazlı Kazanoğlu
abstract:This article attempts to show how government-supported women’s NGOs (GONGOs) in Turkey actively contribute to the construction of neoliberal, conservative, antigender discourses of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government. Since the second decade of the 2000s, Turkey has undergone rapid de-democratization as a result of AKP’s election victories, which have brought with them a major backlash against gender equality policies. Moreover, a new political discourse constructed by the government has replaced the concept of gender equality with gender justice and gender equity. Relying on seven semistructured indepth interviews with members of GO-NGOs and a review of primary and secondary documents, this article contends that the civil society established under the so-called New Turkey situates it in the construction of antigender and antiwomen’s rights discourse.
{"title":"Turning Counterhegemony into Hegemony: The Creation of “New Turkey” through Discursive Governance","authors":"Hande Eslen‐Ziya, Nazlı Kazanoğlu","doi":"10.1215/15525864-10462326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-10462326","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article attempts to show how government-supported women’s NGOs (GONGOs) in Turkey actively contribute to the construction of neoliberal, conservative, antigender discourses of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government. Since the second decade of the 2000s, Turkey has undergone rapid de-democratization as a result of AKP’s election victories, which have brought with them a major backlash against gender equality policies. Moreover, a new political discourse constructed by the government has replaced the concept of gender equality with gender justice and gender equity. Relying on seven semistructured indepth interviews with members of GO-NGOs and a review of primary and secondary documents, this article contends that the civil society established under the so-called New Turkey situates it in the construction of antigender and antiwomen’s rights discourse.","PeriodicalId":45155,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Middle East Womens Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"167 - 184"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49009626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：