The Middle East Women's Studies Review articles from March 2002

The Middle East Women's Studies Review archives from March 2002

"Honor killing": culture, politics and theory.
March 22, 2002... On January 22, 2002, Rahmi Sahindal, a Kurdish immigrant from Turkey, killed his daughter Fadime, in Uppsala, Sweden. (For further discussion of this case, see Mojab and Hassanpour (2002a and 2002b.) Fadime, a student in a Swedish university,...

History via the unconscious in Miriam Cooke's Hayati, My Life.
March 22, 2002... "One cannot not speak of the scandals of an epoch. One cannot not espouse a cause. One cannot not be summoned by an obligation of fidelity." This is the way Helene Cixous (1989:11) has tried to answer "And history?" in her article "From the...

The representation of gender in the ethnographic discourse on Yemen: a case of paradigmatic fossilazation?
March 22, 2002... Introduction: The Discursive Context The perception of the Arab world as composed of homosocial societies, characterized by a "corporate orientation" and the prevalence of "familism" (Kandiyoti 1996:12), and the practice of sex...

Women in Turkey finally gain full equality in the family: the new civil code in Turkey.
March 22, 2002... The new Turkish Civil Code, which scraps the supremacy of men in marriage and thus establishes the full equality of men and women in the family, was approved by the Turkish Parliament on November 22, 2001 and came into effect on January 1,...

Conference reviews.
March 22, 2002... The Twelfth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, which met at the University of Connecticut at Storrs from June 6-9, 2002, included several panels that focused on Middle Eastern women and featured a keynote address by the historian...

Sian MacAdam and Megan Brown report on WLP's First Roaming Institute for Women's Leadership.
March 22, 2002... Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace (WLP) recently brought together 17 women leaders from Afghanistan/Pakistan, Cameroon, Jordan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Morocco, Nigeria, Palestine, and Uzbekistan for a week-long...