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Introduction Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/jmews/article-pdf/17/3/463/1169829/463robinson.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 THIRD S PACE Roundtab l e: Gendered T r ansnatio nalisms in the M iddle E ast and N orth Africa NO VA R O BINS ON and ANN Y GA UL istories of gender in the modern Middle East and North Africa have flourished H in the last three decades, fueled in part by JMEWS. Yet much of this work is circumscribed by the nation-state, which remains the primary framing for discus- sions of women’s activism and gender-based reform. Existing scholarship includes glimpses of women collaborating across national, regional, cultural, and linguis- tic boundaries but rarely foregrounds these transnational connections or empha- sizes how formative transnational spaces and conversations were in shaping gen- der norms. This roundtable brings together the work of gender historians whose research collectively ranges from Morocco to Afghanistan, and traces a variety of connections across the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. Its five short essays high- light modes of movement, organizing, and exchange across borders, focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We demonstrate the many ways in which women in the Middle East and North Africa collaborated with one another and with women http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Duke University Press

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Copyright © 2021 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies
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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/jmews/article-pdf/17/3/463/1169829/463robinson.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 THIRD S PACE Roundtab l e: Gendered T r ansnatio nalisms in the M iddle E ast and N orth Africa NO VA R O BINS ON and ANN Y GA UL istories of gender in the modern Middle East and North Africa have flourished H in the last three decades, fueled in part by JMEWS. Yet much of this work is circumscribed by the nation-state, which remains the primary framing for discus- sions of women’s activism and gender-based reform. Existing scholarship includes glimpses of women collaborating across national, regional, cultural, and linguis- tic boundaries but rarely foregrounds these transnational connections or empha- sizes how formative transnational spaces and conversations were in shaping gen- der norms. This roundtable brings together the work of gender historians whose research collectively ranges from Morocco to Afghanistan, and traces a variety of connections across the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. Its five short essays high- light modes of movement, organizing, and exchange across borders, focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We demonstrate the many ways in which women in the Middle East and North Africa collaborated with one another and with women

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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies – Duke University Press

Published: Nov 1, 2021

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