Frances S Hasso
Biographic Data
| ID | 287512 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frances S Hasso |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frances S |
| FAMILY NAME | Hasso |
| SIGNATURE | HASSO F S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5847-9806 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 117 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
"Obstetricians Are Always Taking a Position against Us": The Politics of Contemporary Midwifery and Childbirth in Palestine
"Obstetricians Are Always Taking a Position against Us": The Politics of Contemporary Midwifery and Childbirth in Palestine
Although until the late 1960s women's reproductive health care had been largely the domain of Palestinian women healers, midwives, and nurse-midwives, the contemporary reproductive healthcare system in Palestine is medicalized, masculinized, and commodified in an indigenous society already suffering from the brutality of Israeli occupation.Based on interviews with eight experienced Palestinian midwives, scholarly and field research, and field kno…
Obstetricians Are Always Taking a Position against Us: The Politics of Contemporary Midwifery and Childbirth in Palestine
Beyond the Treatment Room: The Psyche-Body-Society Care Politics of Cairo's El-Nadeem
This article examines the care politics of El-Nadeem Center for the Psychological Treatment and Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture, an organization established in Cairo in 1993 by leftist politically active psychiatrists, largely women. It shows what it looks like to provide care when violence, especially torture, is immanent. El-Nadeem’s practitioners quickly learned from their clients that healing often required public interventi…
Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine
Bringing together a vivid array of analog and non-traditional sources, including colonial archives, newspaper reports, literature, oral histories, and interviews, Buried in the Red Dirt tells a story of life, death, reproduction and missing bodies and experiences during and since the British colonial period in Palestine. Using transnational feminist reading practices of existing and new archives, the book moves beyond authorized frames of collect…
Consuming Desires: Family Crisis and the State in the Middle East
I Have Ambition”: Muhammad Ramadan's Proletarian Masculinities in Postrevolution Egyptian Cinema
This article provides a close reading of two popular Egyptian action films, al-Almani (The German, 2012), the first blockbuster since the 25 January 2011 revolution, and Qalb al-Asad (Lion heart, 2013), both starring Muhammad Ramadan as a socially produced proletarian “thug” figure. Made for Egyptian audiences, the films privilege entertainment over aesthetics or politics. However, they express distinct messages about violence, morality, and revo…
Cover Art Concept
How can any work of art fully capture what exists beyond the work—personal experience and emotion? I aim for evocative imagery that charges the soul and pierces our beings. I have found that the determination to live (love, really) is mirrored in nature. The rose, for example, lives despite the crushing boots of time and war. So do women, despite having their hearts trampled on, wits driven into walls of insanity, and wisdom thrown asunder as fem…
Generations
Masculine love and sensuous reason: The affective and spatial politics of Egyptian Ultras football fans
This article uses a feminist spatial approach attentive to masculine affect and difference to analyze the language, cultural production, and practices of the two largest Ultras football fan groups in Egypt – White Knights (affiliated with Zamalek Sporting Club) and Ahlawy (affiliated with Al-Ahly Sporting Club) – both established in 2007. Egyptian Ultras cultivate embodied passion, joy, love and anger. By excluding girls and women, the Ultras ref…
Entering and Remaking Spaces
Civil and the Limits of Politics in Revolutionary Egypt
Based on analysis of scholarly and primary sources that include July 2011 and January and February 2014 fieldwork in Cairo, this article examines civil as a word with multiple synchronic meanings and shifts in valence in Egypt between January 2011 and July 2013. I argue that civil stood as a rhetorical placeholder in a time with few secure ideological positions, little agreement about the content of the good society, and wide recognition of the e…
Bargaining with the Devil
Since the 1980s, an explosion in state, international, and nongovernmental campaigns and programs propose to increase women’s rights and protections in Arab countries. Women and women’s rights activists often invite and appeal to male-dominated states to regulate, intervene, or change the rules in sexual and family life in order to address a range of problems and challenges, including lack of economic and other resources, political and citizenshi…
Khul‘ Divorce in Egypt: Public Debates, Judicial Practices, and Everyday Life by Nadia Sonneveld
Book Review| November 01 2013 Khul‘ Divorce in Egypt: Public Debates, Judicial Practices, and Everyday Life by Nadia Sonneveld Khul‘ Divorce in Egypt: Public Debates, Judicial Practices, and Everyday Life, Sonneveld, Nadia. Cairo; New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2012. 229 pages. ISBN: 978-977-416-484-12. Frances S. Hasso Frances S. Hasso Duke University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle…
Deconstructing Sexuality in the Middle East: Challenges and Discourses
Overview: Engaging the Arab Human Development Report 2005 on Women
The Arab Human Development Report 2005: Towards the Rise of Women in the Arab World (AHDR 2005) , published in Arabic with English and French translations, was launched at the end of 2006. With a title carefully crafted to avoid Western development buzzwords like “empowerment” and to signal the inclusion of all women living in the region, it is the third in a series of detailed studies meant to unpack the themes of the original overview report th…
Empowering Governmentalities Rather Than Women: The Arab Human Development Report 2005 and Western Development Logics
This article analyzes the Arab Human Development Report 2005: Towards the Rise of Women in the Arab World . I argue that the Arab Human Development Report 2005 works within a United Nations development framework that strengthens states and elites in relation to their populations. This strategy reinforces the logic of national, transnational, and feminist governmentalities. Little attention is given to oppositional movements as sources of developm…
Resistance, Repression, and Gender Politics in Occupied Palestine and Jordan
This book examines gender, women's involvement, and sexuality in the ideologies and strategies of a transnational Palestinian political movement. This book focuses on the central party apparatus of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), the Democratic Front (DF) branches established in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Jordan in the 1970s, and the most influential and innovative of the DF women's organizations: the Pa…
Discursive and Political Deployments by/of the 2002 Palestinian Women Suicide Bombers/Martyrs
This paper focuses on representations by and deployments of the four Palestinian women who during the first four months of 2002 killed themselves in organized attacks against Israeli military personnel or civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories or Israel. The paper addresses the manner in which these militant women produced and situated themselves as gendered-political subjects, and argues that their self-representations and acts were d…
Problems and Promise in Middle East and North Africa Gender Research
IN THIS ARTICLE I SURVEY several themes in Middle East and North Africa gender-related studies that have emerged as important for me as a student, teacher, and researcher: the operations and fracturing of binary frameworks (e.g., West/East, authentic/inauthentic, modern/traditional, resistance/abjection, secular/pious); varying perspectives on gendered selves, subjectivities, and identities, and their implications for feminist imaginings and sexu…
States and Women's Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco
Feminist Generations? The Long-Term Impact of Social Movement Involvement on Palestinian Women's Lives
While there is an extensive literature addressing gender and women in social movements, there is very little addressing the impact of such participation on individual women in the aftermath of involvement. This article explores the individual impact of social movement participation using longitudinal qualitative research with working-class Palestinian women and argues that there exists among these former participants a "feminist generation" that …
Modernity and Gender in Arab Accounts of the 1948 and 1967 Defeats
The victory which the Zionists have achieved...lies not in the superiority of one people over another, but rather in the superiority of one system over another. The reason for this victory is that the roots of Zionism are grounded in modern Western life while we for the most part are still distant from this life and hostile to it. They live in the present and for the future while we continue to dream the dreams of the past and to stupify ourselve…
The 'Women's Front: Nationalism, Feminism, and Modernity in Palestine
Nationalisms are polymorphous and often internally contradictory, unleashing emancipatory as well as repressive ideas and forces. This article explores the ideologies and mobilization strategies of two organizations over a 10-year period in the occupied Palestinian territories: a leftist-nationalist party in which women became unusually powerful and its affiliated and remarkably successful nationalist-feminist women's organization. Two factors al…
Feminist Generations? The Long-Term Impact of Social Movement Involvement on Palestinian Women's Lives
While there is an extensive literature addressing gender and women in social movements, there is very little addressing the impact of such participation on individual women in the aftermath of involvement. This article explores the individual impact of social movement participation using longitudinal qualitative research with working-class Palestinian women and argues that there exists among these former participants a "feminist generation" that …
Discursive and Political Deployments by/of the 2002 Palestinian Women Suicide Bombers/Martyrs
This paper focuses on representations by and deployments of the four Palestinian women who during the first four months of 2002 killed themselves in organized attacks against Israeli military personnel or civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories or Israel. The paper addresses the manner in which these militant women produced and situated themselves as gendered-political subjects, and argues that their self-representations and acts were d…
Empowering Governmentalities Rather Than Women: The Arab Human Development Report 2005 and Western Development Logics
This article analyzes the Arab Human Development Report 2005: Towards the Rise of Women in the Arab World . I argue that the Arab Human Development Report 2005 works within a United Nations development framework that strengthens states and elites in relation to their populations. This strategy reinforces the logic of national, transnational, and feminist governmentalities. Little attention is given to oppositional movements as sources of developm…
The 'Women's Front: Nationalism, Feminism, and Modernity in Palestine
Nationalisms are polymorphous and often internally contradictory, unleashing emancipatory as well as repressive ideas and forces. This article explores the ideologies and mobilization strategies of two organizations over a 10-year period in the occupied Palestinian territories: a leftist-nationalist party in which women became unusually powerful and its affiliated and remarkably successful nationalist-feminist women's organization. Two factors al…
Deconstructing Sexuality in the Middle East: Challenges and Discourses
Bargaining with the Devil
Since the 1980s, an explosion in state, international, and nongovernmental campaigns and programs propose to increase women’s rights and protections in Arab countries. Women and women’s rights activists often invite and appeal to male-dominated states to regulate, intervene, or change the rules in sexual and family life in order to address a range of problems and challenges, including lack of economic and other resources, political and citizenshi…
Modernity and Gender in Arab Accounts of the 1948 and 1967 Defeats
The victory which the Zionists have achieved...lies not in the superiority of one people over another, but rather in the superiority of one system over another. The reason for this victory is that the roots of Zionism are grounded in modern Western life while we for the most part are still distant from this life and hostile to it. They live in the present and for the future while we continue to dream the dreams of the past and to stupify ourselve…
Masculine love and sensuous reason: The affective and spatial politics of Egyptian Ultras football fans
This article uses a feminist spatial approach attentive to masculine affect and difference to analyze the language, cultural production, and practices of the two largest Ultras football fan groups in Egypt – White Knights (affiliated with Zamalek Sporting Club) and Ahlawy (affiliated with Al-Ahly Sporting Club) – both established in 2007. Egyptian Ultras cultivate embodied passion, joy, love and anger. By excluding girls and women, the Ultras ref…
Civil and the Limits of Politics in Revolutionary Egypt
Based on analysis of scholarly and primary sources that include July 2011 and January and February 2014 fieldwork in Cairo, this article examines civil as a word with multiple synchronic meanings and shifts in valence in Egypt between January 2011 and July 2013. I argue that civil stood as a rhetorical placeholder in a time with few secure ideological positions, little agreement about the content of the good society, and wide recognition of the e…
Problems and Promise in Middle East and North Africa Gender Research
IN THIS ARTICLE I SURVEY several themes in Middle East and North Africa gender-related studies that have emerged as important for me as a student, teacher, and researcher: the operations and fracturing of binary frameworks (e.g., West/East, authentic/inauthentic, modern/traditional, resistance/abjection, secular/pious); varying perspectives on gendered selves, subjectivities, and identities, and their implications for feminist imaginings and sexu…
I Have Ambition”: Muhammad Ramadan's Proletarian Masculinities in Postrevolution Egyptian Cinema
This article provides a close reading of two popular Egyptian action films, al-Almani (The German, 2012), the first blockbuster since the 25 January 2011 revolution, and Qalb al-Asad (Lion heart, 2013), both starring Muhammad Ramadan as a socially produced proletarian “thug” figure. Made for Egyptian audiences, the films privilege entertainment over aesthetics or politics. However, they express distinct messages about violence, morality, and revo…
Overview: Engaging the Arab Human Development Report 2005 on Women
The Arab Human Development Report 2005: Towards the Rise of Women in the Arab World (AHDR 2005) , published in Arabic with English and French translations, was launched at the end of 2006. With a title carefully crafted to avoid Western development buzzwords like “empowerment” and to signal the inclusion of all women living in the region, it is the third in a series of detailed studies meant to unpack the themes of the original overview report th…
States and Women's Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco
The 'Women's Front: Nationalism, Feminism, and Modernity in Palestine
Nationalisms are polymorphous and often internally contradictory, unleashing emancipatory as well as repressive ideas and forces. This article explores the ideologies and mobilization strategies of two organizations over a 10-year period in the occupied Palestinian territories: a leftist-nationalist party in which women became unusually powerful and its affiliated and remarkably successful nationalist-feminist women's organization. Two factors al…
Modernity and Gender in Arab Accounts of the 1948 and 1967 Defeats
The victory which the Zionists have achieved...lies not in the superiority of one people over another, but rather in the superiority of one system over another. The reason for this victory is that the roots of Zionism are grounded in modern Western life while we for the most part are still distant from this life and hostile to it. They live in the present and for the future while we continue to dream the dreams of the past and to stupify ourselve…
Feminist Generations? The Long-Term Impact of Social Movement Involvement on Palestinian Women's Lives
While there is an extensive literature addressing gender and women in social movements, there is very little addressing the impact of such participation on individual women in the aftermath of involvement. This article explores the individual impact of social movement participation using longitudinal qualitative research with working-class Palestinian women and argues that there exists among these former participants a "feminist generation" that …
States and Women's Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco
Resistance, Repression, and Gender Politics in Occupied Palestine and Jordan
This book examines gender, women's involvement, and sexuality in the ideologies and strategies of a transnational Palestinian political movement. This book focuses on the central party apparatus of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), the Democratic Front (DF) branches established in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Jordan in the 1970s, and the most influential and innovative of the DF women's organizations: the Pa…
Discursive and Political Deployments by/of the 2002 Palestinian Women Suicide Bombers/Martyrs
This paper focuses on representations by and deployments of the four Palestinian women who during the first four months of 2002 killed themselves in organized attacks against Israeli military personnel or civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories or Israel. The paper addresses the manner in which these militant women produced and situated themselves as gendered-political subjects, and argues that their self-representations and acts were d…
Problems and Promise in Middle East and North Africa Gender Research
IN THIS ARTICLE I SURVEY several themes in Middle East and North Africa gender-related studies that have emerged as important for me as a student, teacher, and researcher: the operations and fracturing of binary frameworks (e.g., West/East, authentic/inauthentic, modern/traditional, resistance/abjection, secular/pious); varying perspectives on gendered selves, subjectivities, and identities, and their implications for feminist imaginings and sexu…
Overview: Engaging the Arab Human Development Report 2005 on Women
The Arab Human Development Report 2005: Towards the Rise of Women in the Arab World (AHDR 2005) , published in Arabic with English and French translations, was launched at the end of 2006. With a title carefully crafted to avoid Western development buzzwords like “empowerment” and to signal the inclusion of all women living in the region, it is the third in a series of detailed studies meant to unpack the themes of the original overview report th…
Empowering Governmentalities Rather Than Women: The Arab Human Development Report 2005 and Western Development Logics
This article analyzes the Arab Human Development Report 2005: Towards the Rise of Women in the Arab World . I argue that the Arab Human Development Report 2005 works within a United Nations development framework that strengthens states and elites in relation to their populations. This strategy reinforces the logic of national, transnational, and feminist governmentalities. Little attention is given to oppositional movements as sources of developm…
Deconstructing Sexuality in the Middle East: Challenges and Discourses
Khul‘ Divorce in Egypt: Public Debates, Judicial Practices, and Everyday Life by Nadia Sonneveld
Book Review| November 01 2013 Khul‘ Divorce in Egypt: Public Debates, Judicial Practices, and Everyday Life by Nadia Sonneveld Khul‘ Divorce in Egypt: Public Debates, Judicial Practices, and Everyday Life, Sonneveld, Nadia. Cairo; New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2012. 229 pages. ISBN: 978-977-416-484-12. Frances S. Hasso Frances S. Hasso Duke University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle…
Bargaining with the Devil
Since the 1980s, an explosion in state, international, and nongovernmental campaigns and programs propose to increase women’s rights and protections in Arab countries. Women and women’s rights activists often invite and appeal to male-dominated states to regulate, intervene, or change the rules in sexual and family life in order to address a range of problems and challenges, including lack of economic and other resources, political and citizenshi…
Civil and the Limits of Politics in Revolutionary Egypt
Based on analysis of scholarly and primary sources that include July 2011 and January and February 2014 fieldwork in Cairo, this article examines civil as a word with multiple synchronic meanings and shifts in valence in Egypt between January 2011 and July 2013. I argue that civil stood as a rhetorical placeholder in a time with few secure ideological positions, little agreement about the content of the good society, and wide recognition of the e…
Entering and Remaking Spaces
Cover Art Concept
How can any work of art fully capture what exists beyond the work—personal experience and emotion? I aim for evocative imagery that charges the soul and pierces our beings. I have found that the determination to live (love, really) is mirrored in nature. The rose, for example, lives despite the crushing boots of time and war. So do women, despite having their hearts trampled on, wits driven into walls of insanity, and wisdom thrown asunder as fem…
Generations
Masculine love and sensuous reason: The affective and spatial politics of Egyptian Ultras football fans
This article uses a feminist spatial approach attentive to masculine affect and difference to analyze the language, cultural production, and practices of the two largest Ultras football fan groups in Egypt – White Knights (affiliated with Zamalek Sporting Club) and Ahlawy (affiliated with Al-Ahly Sporting Club) – both established in 2007. Egyptian Ultras cultivate embodied passion, joy, love and anger. By excluding girls and women, the Ultras ref…
Consuming Desires: Family Crisis and the State in the Middle East
I Have Ambition”: Muhammad Ramadan's Proletarian Masculinities in Postrevolution Egyptian Cinema
This article provides a close reading of two popular Egyptian action films, al-Almani (The German, 2012), the first blockbuster since the 25 January 2011 revolution, and Qalb al-Asad (Lion heart, 2013), both starring Muhammad Ramadan as a socially produced proletarian “thug” figure. Made for Egyptian audiences, the films privilege entertainment over aesthetics or politics. However, they express distinct messages about violence, morality, and revo…
Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine
Bringing together a vivid array of analog and non-traditional sources, including colonial archives, newspaper reports, literature, oral histories, and interviews, Buried in the Red Dirt tells a story of life, death, reproduction and missing bodies and experiences during and since the British colonial period in Palestine. Using transnational feminist reading practices of existing and new archives, the book moves beyond authorized frames of collect…
Beyond the Treatment Room: The Psyche-Body-Society Care Politics of Cairo's El-Nadeem
This article examines the care politics of El-Nadeem Center for the Psychological Treatment and Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture, an organization established in Cairo in 1993 by leftist politically active psychiatrists, largely women. It shows what it looks like to provide care when violence, especially torture, is immanent. El-Nadeem’s practitioners quickly learned from their clients that healing often required public interventi…
"Obstetricians Are Always Taking a Position against Us": The Politics of Contemporary Midwifery and Childbirth in Palestine
"Obstetricians Are Always Taking a Position against Us": The Politics of Contemporary Midwifery and Childbirth in Palestine
Although until the late 1960s women's reproductive health care had been largely the domain of Palestinian women healers, midwives, and nurse-midwives, the contemporary reproductive healthcare system in Palestine is medicalized, masculinized, and commodified in an indigenous society already suffering from the brutality of Israeli occupation.Based on interviews with eight experienced Palestinian midwives, scholarly and field research, and field kno…
Obstetricians Are Always Taking a Position against Us: The Politics of Contemporary Midwifery and Childbirth in Palestine
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