Countering depoliticized representations of Syrian women: memories of dictatorship from pre-war Syria

Gissi, Angela

doi:10.1080/0966369x.2019.1710471

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“…Scholars challenge the notion of 'presumed harmony among women' , highlighting women's power struggles (Salamandra 2004: 62). While literature on Syrian women's use of power outside the home (especially in political acts of resistance) continues to emerge (Gissi 2020), women's power within the home remains understudied.…”

Section: Situating Women's Use Of Powermentioning

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Gendered Power Struggles beyond the Male-Female Dichotomy

Lokot¹

2023

Anthropology of the Middle East

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Analysis of gendered power struggles often describes men's use of power over women. In some academic research, as well as analysis by development and humanitarian agencies who seek to promote gender equality, power may be framed narrowly. Such analysis may neglect how family relationships are shaped not only by gender but also by intersections between gender and age. This article is based on feminist ethnographic research among Syrian refugees in Jordan as well as interviews with humanitarian workers. It uses accounts of power struggles between Syrian mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law to illustrate how family dynamics shift as women advance in age. The paper complicates assumptions about men's power, arguing that policy-makers and gender practitioners should also consider how older women use power.

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Section: Situating Women's Use Of Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

Gendered Power Struggles beyond the Male-Female Dichotomy

Lokot¹

2023

Anthropology of the Middle East

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‘I Want to Break Free!’

Gülel

2022

J. Relig. Transf. Cont. Soc.

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Since the late 2000s, Turkey has experienced de-Europeanisation, de-democratisation, and Islamist and authoritarian transformation that has also reinforced patriarchal understanding of gender relations and regressive gender norms. This study focuses on women’s freedom from religion and their liberty to decide whether to wear an Islamic veil in such a gendered socio-political climate. The online platform Yalnız Yürümeyeceksin [you will not walk alone] was born in 2018, and it anonymously publishes women’s life experiences around veiling. By examining 592 letters published between 2018 and 2020, this original study ascertains that women’s rights under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) have been disregarded against the backdrop of oppressed women’s lived histories. In doing so, the study reveals how various parties’ decisions around veiling shape women’s lives and how women’s rights and freedoms are violated vis-à-vis these decisions.

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Countering depoliticized representations of Syrian women: memories of dictatorship from pre-war Syria

Cited by 2 publications

References 38 publications

Gendered Power Struggles beyond the Male-Female Dichotomy

Gendered Power Struggles beyond the Male-Female Dichotomy

‘I Want to Break Free!’

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