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Syrian And Palestinian Syrian Refugees In Lebanon: The Plight Of Women And Children, Lorraine Charles, Kate Denman
Syrian And Palestinian Syrian Refugees In Lebanon: The Plight Of Women And Children, Lorraine Charles, Kate Denman
Journal of International Women's Studies
The humanitarian crisis resulting from the Syrian conflict is estimated to be the worst so far of this century. The recent influx of refugees has now reached a point where they are equal to one quarter of Lebanon’s population, causing evident strains on its fragile economy and social structure. Syrians in Lebanon have fled from their home to seek safety, however their vulnerability is now in question as women’s and children’s rights continue to be under threat. This paper investigates the plight of Syrian and Palestinian Syrian refugees in Lebanon with an emphasis on women and children. While there are …
"We Thought We Were Playing": Children’S Participation In The Syrian Revolution, Layla Saleh
"We Thought We Were Playing": Children’S Participation In The Syrian Revolution, Layla Saleh
Journal of International Women's Studies
This article explores the participation of children in the Syrian uprising against Bashar al-Assad. The involvement of children in democratic social movements and regime transitions has not been addressed in the literature, although some works describe the role children can play in making public policy or in the humanitarian domain. I argue that just as the role of women and of university-aged youth was gradually incorporated in the body of research on the social movements and regime transitions, so should the role of children be studied. I then characterize the role of children in the Syrian uprising as a three-stage …
Libya's Implosion And Its Impacts On Children, Lere Amusan
Libya's Implosion And Its Impacts On Children, Lere Amusan
Journal of International Women's Studies
The Arab Spring’s ripple effects on Libya led to the overthrow of Muammar Al-Qaddafi’s government of over four decades. The regime change in Libya was not a smooth adventure. It led to a civil war, which impacted negatively on Libyan children. The seeds of discord that this war sowed in the once considered stable state shall be the focus of this discussion through the employment of descriptive and analytical methods. The contention of this study is that every actor in the civil war disregarded various international treaties that protect children and indigenous peoples during the war. This paper argues that …
Lessons Gleaned From The Political Participation Of Children In Bahrain Uprising, Hae Won Jeong
Lessons Gleaned From The Political Participation Of Children In Bahrain Uprising, Hae Won Jeong
Journal of International Women's Studies
Reflecting the tension between state sovereignty and human rights, this paper discusses the moral and ethical implications of the political participation and detention of Bahraini children against the backdrop of sectarian geopolitics. Drawing methodological insights from postmodernism, this paper argues that reading of Bahraini children as political subjects are objectified and reified with truth claims, which ascribes them a minoritized status based on age and sect. This paper is interdisciplinary in its approach and is three-pronged: First, it begins by providing a contextual analysis of sectarian politics and dichotomous discourses of national sovereignty and human rights. Secondly, this paper juxtaposes …
Nation, Gender, And Identity: Children In The Syrian Revolution 2011, Manal Al-Natour
Nation, Gender, And Identity: Children In The Syrian Revolution 2011, Manal Al-Natour
Journal of International Women's Studies
This article examines the victimization and role of Syrian children in the Syrian Revolution 2011. I claim that through engaging in a competition to provide a definitive image of the nation, both the regime and the opposition victimize Syrian children. Nevertheless, the art projects undertaken by nonviolence activists have proven to help children heal and to cope with the predicaments brought on them by the crisis. The poetry, paintings, drawings, and songs produced by these children are the best means they have of representing their victimization and their role in the revolution, and communicating their perspectives on the Syrian nation …
Women Lost, Women Found: Searching For An Arab-Islamic Feminist Identity In Nawal El Saadawi’S Twelve Women In A Cell In Light Of Current Egyptian "Spring" Events, Ebtehal Al-Khateeb
Women Lost, Women Found: Searching For An Arab-Islamic Feminist Identity In Nawal El Saadawi’S Twelve Women In A Cell In Light Of Current Egyptian "Spring" Events, Ebtehal Al-Khateeb
Journal of International Women's Studies
Dr. Nawal El Saadawi, an Arab feminist, playwright, novelist, and thinker, has been one of the most controversial literary figures in Arab contemporary literature. In this paper, I examine El Saadawi’s 1984 play Twelve Women in A Cell in light of the ongoing political dissidence that gave birth to the recent Arab Spring and its intricate relation to feminist dissidence. The play published twenty-eight years ago, deals with a bizarre situation that surprisingly and sadly, is still relevant to women’s struggle within Arab-Islamic hegemony. The cell that hosts twelve Egyptian women, in El Saadawi’s play, becomes the Arabic Islamic patriarchal …
Introduction: Children And Arab Spring, Sangeeta Sinha, Emilia Garofalo, Muhamad Olimat
Introduction: Children And Arab Spring, Sangeeta Sinha, Emilia Garofalo, Muhamad Olimat
Journal of International Women's Studies
No abstract provided.
Rethinking Representations Of Sexual And Gender-Based Violence: A Case Study Of The Liberian Truth And Reconciliation Commission, James West
Journal of International Women's Studies
Focusing on forced marriage or the ‘bush wife phenomenon’ as a category of abuse in the Liberian Civil War, this paper seeks to critically assess the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s analysis of wartime abuses and its representation of sexual and gender-based violence.
Framing Wrongs And Performing Rights In Northern Ireland: Towards A Butlerian Approach To Life In Abortion Strategising, Kathryn Mcneilly
Framing Wrongs And Performing Rights In Northern Ireland: Towards A Butlerian Approach To Life In Abortion Strategising, Kathryn Mcneilly
Journal of International Women's Studies
Feminist strategising on abortion has been dominated by a “pro-choice” frame. Increasingly, however, pro-choice discourse is being viewed as inadequate to meet contemporary and complex feminist aims and analyses, in particular due to the individualising ontological framework upon which it appears to be based. The work of Judith Butler is one location where such concerns have been explored and an alternative approach based upon a renewed analysis of the concept of “life” has been asserted. Foregrounding the fundamental precariousness of intersubjective life and opening the socio-political conditions sustaining precarious life to democratic public engagement carries significant implications for feminist strategising …
Doctors And Sheikhs: "Truths" In Virginity Discourse In Jordanian Media, Ebtihal Mahadeen
Doctors And Sheikhs: "Truths" In Virginity Discourse In Jordanian Media, Ebtihal Mahadeen
Journal of International Women's Studies
This article is concerned with the role Jordanian media play in circulating certain discourses on virginity, namely religious and medical discourses, which are presented as "truths" that ultimately maintain the conservative status quo with regards to Jordanian women's sexuality. It is argued that media discussions (on the textual, production, and consumption levels) largely perpetuate patriarchal control over women's sexuality and render invisible more progressive points of view. Simultaneously, critical opinions expressed at any of these levels, while vastly important, operate from within the same discursive fields and are thus rendered less radical.
The Legacy Of Simone De Beauvoir On Modern French Visual Art, Rebecca Trevalyan
The Legacy Of Simone De Beauvoir On Modern French Visual Art, Rebecca Trevalyan
Journal of International Women's Studies
Arguably the woman that first inspired and shaped the Women’s Liberation Movement in Western Europe, Simone de Beauvoir had an emboldening influence on women engaged in a variety of vocations. Visual art is an area of influence that has been less examined in academia. This project considers the heritage of Beauvoir’s Le Deuxième Sexe in the work of five French women artists; in particular the depiction of femininity as artifice, the tensions between painted appearance and corporeal reality, and the bravery required to take action, to persistently defy the gaze of a male-coded society.
Sensational Kin: Family, Normativity And Women's Weekly Magazines, Melanie Anne Stewart
Sensational Kin: Family, Normativity And Women's Weekly Magazines, Melanie Anne Stewart
Journal of International Women's Studies
This essay analyses a range of British women’s weekly magazines commonly referred to as ‘Women’s Weeklies’. Examples of these texts include Pick-Me-Up, Take-a-Break, Real People, and Closer. Unlike more widely researched magazines such as Cosmopolitan or Glamour, the women’s weeklies draw their readership based on the supposed autobiographical nature of the narratives, which in turn generates the ‘authenticity’ attributed to personal narratives. In this essay I analyse the personal narratives of the weeklies within the wider public sphere, arguing that such personal narratives render women’s weeklies relevant in political debate. The essay demonstrates how the individual …
Circular Consciousness In The Lived Experience Of Intersectionality: Queer/Lgbt Nigerian Diasporic Women In The Usa, Meremu Chikwendu
Circular Consciousness In The Lived Experience Of Intersectionality: Queer/Lgbt Nigerian Diasporic Women In The Usa, Meremu Chikwendu
Journal of International Women's Studies
This essay will introduce and analyze the idea of circular consciousness as the product of the constant negotiations involved in the lived experience of intersectionality. Circular consciousness is the understanding that subject positionings are in constant motion, sliding over, under, and around each other, consequently informing and redefining identities. The essay pulls from intersectional theory and feminist postcolonial theory, speaks to queer theory, and calls for increased and continued elasticity in our understandings and theorizing around power, subjectivity, agency, and identity. Advocating for a renewed dedication to the political origins of intersectional theory, this article will focus on LGBQ Nigerian-born …
Living In The Garden Of Perhaps: Ordinary Life As An Obstacle To Political Change In Israel, Katherine Natanel
Living In The Garden Of Perhaps: Ordinary Life As An Obstacle To Political Change In Israel, Katherine Natanel
Journal of International Women's Studies
This article explores how gender in part shapes the contours of small worlds or ‘elsewheres’ (Haraway 1992), constructed by Jewish Israelis as they pursue ‘ordinary lives’ in a context of conflict and sustained political violence. Situating as central the experiences, perceptions and behaviours of the dominant sector in Jewish Israeli society—middle-class Ashkenazi Jews living in Israel’s urban centres—the article appraises the work done by the production and maintenance of dual worlds, what lies at stake in their loss and their implications for political change. By building upon the work of feminist and queer theorists who consider the centrality of intimacy …
No Place Like Home: Re-Writing "Home" And Re-Locating Lesbianism In Emma Donoghue's Stir-Fry And Hood, Emma Young
No Place Like Home: Re-Writing "Home" And Re-Locating Lesbianism In Emma Donoghue's Stir-Fry And Hood, Emma Young
Journal of International Women's Studies
This article considers contemporary novelist Emma Donoghue’s early novels, Stir-Fry (1994) and Hood (1995), and argues that these works contribute to a re-defining of the home space in relation to lesbian sexuality. I draw on theoretical arguments from the social sciences, feminist, gender and sexuality studies, and literary criticism to reveal how an inter-disciplinary approach to Donoghue’s novels illuminates a more nuanced interpretation of their depiction of home space that ensures a ‘home’ for lesbianism is (re)located. At the same time, Donoghue’s novels are revealed to posit their own theorising on home and sexuality. By focusing on objects—including the infamous …
Introduction: New Writings In Feminist And Women's Studies, Katy Pilcher, Katya Salmi
Introduction: New Writings In Feminist And Women's Studies, Katy Pilcher, Katya Salmi
Journal of International Women's Studies
No abstract provided.
Book Review: Appropriately Indian: Gender And Culture In A New Transnational Class, Harasankar Adhikari
Book Review: Appropriately Indian: Gender And Culture In A New Transnational Class, Harasankar Adhikari
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Appropriately Indian: Gender and Culture in a New Transnational Class by Smitha Radhakrishnan (New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2012)
Book Review: Ecofeminism And Rhetoric: Critical Perspectives On Sex, Technology, And Discourse, R. K. Shalyefu
Book Review: Ecofeminism And Rhetoric: Critical Perspectives On Sex, Technology, And Discourse, R. K. Shalyefu
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Ecofeminism and Rhetoric: Critical Perspectives on Sex, Technology, and Discourse by Douglas A. Vakoch (New York: Berghahn Books, 2011)
Book Review: Women And Subsidised Housing In Kwazulu-Natal: The Extent Of Empowerment, Mvuseleo T. M. Mgeyane
Book Review: Women And Subsidised Housing In Kwazulu-Natal: The Extent Of Empowerment, Mvuseleo T. M. Mgeyane
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Women and Subsidised Housing in KwaZulu-Natal: The Extent of Empowerment by Catherine Ndinda (Saarbrücken: Lambert Publishing, 2011)
Book Review: Why Have Kids? A New Mom Explores The Truth About Parenting And Happiness, Rebecca Stevens
Book Review: Why Have Kids? A New Mom Explores The Truth About Parenting And Happiness, Rebecca Stevens
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Why Have Kids? A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness by Jessica Valenti (Boston: New Harvest, 2012)
Book Review: Muslim Women In Britain: De-Mystifying The Muslimah, Katherine Bullock
Book Review: Muslim Women In Britain: De-Mystifying The Muslimah, Katherine Bullock
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Muslim Women in Britain: De-Mystifying the Muslimah by Sariya Contractor (London: Routledge, 2012)
Book Review: Understanding And Applying Research Design, Mercy Nduku Ngungu
Book Review: Understanding And Applying Research Design, Mercy Nduku Ngungu
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Understanding and Applying Research Design by Martin Lee Abbott and Jennifer McKinney (New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2013)
Book Review: Researching Society And Culture, Maureen Nduku
Book Review: Researching Society And Culture, Maureen Nduku
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Researching Society and Culture, edited by Clive Seale (London: Sage Publications, 2011)
Book Review: Cities, Cultural Policy And Governance, Gina Weir-Smith
Book Review: Cities, Cultural Policy And Governance, Gina Weir-Smith
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Cities, Cultural Policy and Governance, edited by Helmut Anheier and Yudhishtihir Raj Isar. (London: Sage Publications, 2012)
Book Review: Feminist Ecocriticism: Environment, Women, Literature, Amukelani T. Ngobeni
Book Review: Feminist Ecocriticism: Environment, Women, Literature, Amukelani T. Ngobeni
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Feminist Ecocriticism: Environment, Women, Literature, edited by Douglas A. Vakoch (New York: Lexington Books, 2012)
Book Review: Ethical Research With Sex Workers: Anthropological Approaches, Nteboheleng Mahapa
Book Review: Ethical Research With Sex Workers: Anthropological Approaches, Nteboheleng Mahapa
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Ethical Research with Sex Workers. Anthropological Approaches by Susan Dewey and Tiantian Zheng (New York: Springer, 2013)
Book Review: Ottoman Women: Myth And Reality, Vida Rahiminezhad
Book Review: Ottoman Women: Myth And Reality, Vida Rahiminezhad
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Ottoman Women: Myth and Reality by Asli Sancar (New Jersey: Light, Inc., 2007)
Book Review: From The Shahs To Los Angeles: Three Generations Of Iranian Jewish Women Between Religion And Culture, Catherine Ogunmefun
Book Review: From The Shahs To Los Angeles: Three Generations Of Iranian Jewish Women Between Religion And Culture, Catherine Ogunmefun
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of From the Shahs to Los Angeles: Three Generations of Iranian Jewish Women between Religion and Culture by Saba Soomekh (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2012)
Book Review: Reshaping Gender And Class In Rural Spaces, Thelma Maluleke
Book Review: Reshaping Gender And Class In Rural Spaces, Thelma Maluleke
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Reshaping Gender and Class in Rural Spaces, edited by Barbara Pini and Belinda Leach (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2011)
Book Review: Women's Movements And The Filipina (1986-2008), Dizline Mfanozelwe Shozi
Book Review: Women's Movements And The Filipina (1986-2008), Dizline Mfanozelwe Shozi
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Women’s Movements and the Filipina (1986-2008) by Mina Roces (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2012)