Norma Claire Moruzzi
Biographic Data
| ID | 363963 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Norma Claire Moruzzi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Norma Claire |
| FAMILY NAME | Moruzzi |
| SIGNATURE | MORUZZI N C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
In Memoriam
Fatima Mernissi’s impact on scholarship and writing on Arab and Muslim women has been so profound that it is almost easy to overlook. Eclectic in her interpretations and her methodologies, Mernissi wrote variously as a sociologist and a historian, a literary scholar and a novelist. Her expansive interdisciplinarity, willingness to challenge entrenched taboos wherever she found them, and real gift for narrative writing together allowed her to make…
The Politics of Women's Rights in Iran
Trying to Look Different: Hijab as the Self-Presentation of Social Distinctions
Research Article| August 01 2008 Trying to Look Different: Hijab as the Self-Presentation of Social Distinctions Norma Claire Moruzzi Norma Claire Moruzzi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (2): 225–234. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2008-001 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Norma Claire Moruzzi; Trying to Loo…
Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire: Young Iranian Women Today
In evaluating women’s position in the contemporary Islamic Republic of Iran, it is important to look at the social, as opposed to the legal, aspects of citizenship. In the decades following the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Iranian society has become resolutely more modern, despite the public face of elderly tradition presented by its clerical political elite. This modernization enhanced trends that were already evident before the revolution. In 19…
Cutting through Culture: The Feminist Discourse on Female Circumcision
In ‘Can the Subaltern Speak,’ Gayatri Spivak posed the issue of the historical discourse surrounding suttee, or sati (widow burning) as a complex cultural problem of feminist interpretation and pol
Strange Bedfellows: The Question of Lawrence Oliphant’s Christian Zionism
Modern Zionism is a nineteenth-century product, inextricably bound up with the romance of the nation-state as the most appropriate form of political organization. All nationalisms have their particular romance, their myths of community origins, sufferings, and eventual just triumph. Most nationalisms include a religious aspect as well, although to be respectable a modern nationalist project must be argued in secular terms, at least publicly. Mode…
Speaking through the Mask: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Social Identity
Hannah Arendt was famously resistant to both psychoanalysis and feminism. Nonetheless, psychoanalytic feminist theory can offer a new interpretive strategy for deconstructing her equally famous opposition between the social and the political. Supplementing critical readings of Arendt's most significant texts (including The Human Condition , On Revolution , Rahel Varnhagen , The Origins of Totalitarianism , Eichmann in Jerusalem , and The Life of …
Women in Iran: Notes on Film and from the Field
In the twenty years since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, an entire society has been transformed and politicized. In this process, no group's experience has been more drastically altered than that of urban, middle-class Iranian women. This is especially true for those women, now in their forties, who were in their early to midtwenties at the time of the Iranian Revolution, who were old enough to have come of age before the revolution, but not yet ol…
Women's Space/Cinema Space: Representations of Public and Private in Iranian Films
Norma Claire Moruzzi, Women's Space/Cinema Space: Representations of Public and Private in Iranian Films, Middle East Report, No. 212, Pushing the Limits: Iran's Islamic Revolution at Twenty (Autumn, 1999), pp. 52-55
Books in Review
A Response to Galeotti
In Defense of Modernity: Role Complexity and Individual Autonomy . Rose Laub Coser Engendering Democracy . Anne Phillips Promissory Notes: Women in the Transition to Socialism . Sonia Kruks , Rayna Ra…
A Problem with Headscarves: Contemporary Complexities of Political and Social Identity
IN THE FALL OF 1989, three young North African immigrant women students in a French public secondary school insisted on wearing headscarves in class. In France, secularism in the schools is national policy, and the young women's insistence on keeping their heads covered in the classroom was locally interpreted as a religious challenge to academic regulations. They were suspended from school, but refused to return without the scarves. The incident…
Re-Placing the Margin: (Non)Representations of Colonialism in Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism
Norma Claire Moruzzi, Re-Placing the Margin: (Non)Representations of Colonialism in Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vol. 10, No. 1, Redefining Marginality (Spring, 1991), pp. 109-120
A Problem with Headscarves: Contemporary Complexities of Political and Social Identity
IN THE FALL OF 1989, three young North African immigrant women students in a French public secondary school insisted on wearing headscarves in class. In France, secularism in the schools is national policy, and the young women's insistence on keeping their heads covered in the classroom was locally interpreted as a religious challenge to academic regulations. They were suspended from school, but refused to return without the scarves. The incident…
Trying to Look Different: Hijab as the Self-Presentation of Social Distinctions
Research Article| August 01 2008 Trying to Look Different: Hijab as the Self-Presentation of Social Distinctions Norma Claire Moruzzi Norma Claire Moruzzi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (2): 225–234. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2008-001 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Norma Claire Moruzzi; Trying to Loo…
Strange Bedfellows: The Question of Lawrence Oliphant’s Christian Zionism
Modern Zionism is a nineteenth-century product, inextricably bound up with the romance of the nation-state as the most appropriate form of political organization. All nationalisms have their particular romance, their myths of community origins, sufferings, and eventual just triumph. Most nationalisms include a religious aspect as well, although to be respectable a modern nationalist project must be argued in secular terms, at least publicly. Mode…
In Memoriam
Fatima Mernissi’s impact on scholarship and writing on Arab and Muslim women has been so profound that it is almost easy to overlook. Eclectic in her interpretations and her methodologies, Mernissi wrote variously as a sociologist and a historian, a literary scholar and a novelist. Her expansive interdisciplinarity, willingness to challenge entrenched taboos wherever she found them, and real gift for narrative writing together allowed her to make…
Women in Iran: Notes on Film and from the Field
In the twenty years since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, an entire society has been transformed and politicized. In this process, no group's experience has been more drastically altered than that of urban, middle-class Iranian women. This is especially true for those women, now in their forties, who were in their early to midtwenties at the time of the Iranian Revolution, who were old enough to have come of age before the revolution, but not yet ol…
Books in Review
A Response to Galeotti
Re-Placing the Margin: (Non)Representations of Colonialism in Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism
Norma Claire Moruzzi, Re-Placing the Margin: (Non)Representations of Colonialism in Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vol. 10, No. 1, Redefining Marginality (Spring, 1991), pp. 109-120
A Response to Galeotti
In Defense of Modernity: Role Complexity and Individual Autonomy . Rose Laub Coser Engendering Democracy . Anne Phillips Promissory Notes: Women in the Transition to Socialism . Sonia Kruks , Rayna Ra…
A Problem with Headscarves: Contemporary Complexities of Political and Social Identity
IN THE FALL OF 1989, three young North African immigrant women students in a French public secondary school insisted on wearing headscarves in class. In France, secularism in the schools is national policy, and the young women's insistence on keeping their heads covered in the classroom was locally interpreted as a religious challenge to academic regulations. They were suspended from school, but refused to return without the scarves. The incident…
Books in Review
Women's Space/Cinema Space: Representations of Public and Private in Iranian Films
Norma Claire Moruzzi, Women's Space/Cinema Space: Representations of Public and Private in Iranian Films, Middle East Report, No. 212, Pushing the Limits: Iran's Islamic Revolution at Twenty (Autumn, 1999), pp. 52-55
Speaking through the Mask: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Social Identity
Hannah Arendt was famously resistant to both psychoanalysis and feminism. Nonetheless, psychoanalytic feminist theory can offer a new interpretive strategy for deconstructing her equally famous opposition between the social and the political. Supplementing critical readings of Arendt's most significant texts (including The Human Condition , On Revolution , Rahel Varnhagen , The Origins of Totalitarianism , Eichmann in Jerusalem , and The Life of …
Women in Iran: Notes on Film and from the Field
In the twenty years since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, an entire society has been transformed and politicized. In this process, no group's experience has been more drastically altered than that of urban, middle-class Iranian women. This is especially true for those women, now in their forties, who were in their early to midtwenties at the time of the Iranian Revolution, who were old enough to have come of age before the revolution, but not yet ol…
Cutting through Culture: The Feminist Discourse on Female Circumcision
In ‘Can the Subaltern Speak,’ Gayatri Spivak posed the issue of the historical discourse surrounding suttee, or sati (widow burning) as a complex cultural problem of feminist interpretation and pol
Strange Bedfellows: The Question of Lawrence Oliphant’s Christian Zionism
Modern Zionism is a nineteenth-century product, inextricably bound up with the romance of the nation-state as the most appropriate form of political organization. All nationalisms have their particular romance, their myths of community origins, sufferings, and eventual just triumph. Most nationalisms include a religious aspect as well, although to be respectable a modern nationalist project must be argued in secular terms, at least publicly. Mode…
Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire: Young Iranian Women Today
In evaluating women’s position in the contemporary Islamic Republic of Iran, it is important to look at the social, as opposed to the legal, aspects of citizenship. In the decades following the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Iranian society has become resolutely more modern, despite the public face of elderly tradition presented by its clerical political elite. This modernization enhanced trends that were already evident before the revolution. In 19…
Trying to Look Different: Hijab as the Self-Presentation of Social Distinctions
Research Article| August 01 2008 Trying to Look Different: Hijab as the Self-Presentation of Social Distinctions Norma Claire Moruzzi Norma Claire Moruzzi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (2): 225–234. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2008-001 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Norma Claire Moruzzi; Trying to Loo…
The Politics of Women's Rights in Iran
In Memoriam
Fatima Mernissi’s impact on scholarship and writing on Arab and Muslim women has been so profound that it is almost easy to overlook. Eclectic in her interpretations and her methodologies, Mernissi wrote variously as a sociologist and a historian, a literary scholar and a novelist. Her expansive interdisciplinarity, willingness to challenge entrenched taboos wherever she found them, and real gift for narrative writing together allowed her to make…
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