Amy Aisen Kallander
Biographic Data
| ID | 4859064 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Aisen Kallander |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy Aisen |
| FAMILY NAME | Kallander |
| SIGNATURE | KALLANDER A A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Decorative Arts of the Tunisian École
The radical spirit accompanying decolonization movements in the 1950s and 1960s epitomized by the Algerian War of Independence extended well beyond politics to foster an array of conversations about social and cultural change. Moroccan writers, Palestinian poets, and Iraqi artists embraced the potential of public intellectuals to contribute to these transformations. Whether publishing journals, performing at festivals, or creating monuments, they…
Tunisia's Modern Woman
Transnational Intimacies and the Construction of the New Nation
This article examines love as a facet of nation building in constructions of modern womanhood and national identity in the 1950s and 1960s. In Tunisia and France, romantic love was evoked to define an urban, middle-class modernity in which the gender norms implicit in companionate marriage signaled a break with the past. These ideals were represented in fiction and women's magazines and elaborated in the novel genre of the advice column. Yet this…
Mediating Museums
Virginie Rey’s exploration of museum curation in Tunisia from the in Tunisia from the period of French colonial rule (1881–1956) through the early years following the 2011 revolution considers thei
Our Fighting Sisters
Book Review| November 01 2019 Our Fighting Sisters: Nation, Memory, and Gender in Algeria, 1854–2012 Our Fighting Sisters: Nation, Memory, and Gender in Algeria, 1854–2012. Vince, Natalya. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. xxi + 274 pages. isbn 9781526106575. Amy Kallander Amy Kallander AMY KALLANDER is associate professor of Middle East history at Syracuse University. Contact: [email protected]. Search for other works by this…
Liat Kozma. Global Women, Colonial Ports
Liat Kozma’s Global Women, Colonial Ports: Prostitution in the Interwar Middle East is an ambitious study of prostitution that gestures toward transnational phenomena such as migration (forced and voluntary) while zeroing in on British and French colonies in the Middle East. As the majority of prostitutes of the day did not leave written records, Kozma approaches the topic by alternating between policy deliberations at the League of Nations; effo…
Miniskirts and “Beatniks”
In the decade following independence, the Tunisian state embraced secular feminism as part of the single-party monopoly on political life and economic development. Yet its celebration of new family laws as an aspect of modernization was marred by anxieties about the sexual and moral implications of modern womanhood. Tracing references to the miniskirt in presidential speeches and the women's press, I demonstrate how efforts to delineate the bound…
Justice Interrupted
Justice Interrupted: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in the Middle East, by Elizabeth F. Thompson. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2013. xiv, 418 pp. $39.95 US (cloth). Elizabeth Thompson's Justice Interrupted provides an insightful and engaging synthesis of how range of liberal, Islamic, democratic, socialist, and radical movements across the Middle East interpreted and applied the concept of justice. Thompson reveals the deep in…
Women, Gender, and the Palace Households in Ottoman Tunisia
In this first in-depth study of the ruling family of Tunisia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Kallander investigates the palace as a site of familial and political significance. Through extensive archival research, she elucidates the domestic economy of the palace as well as the changing relationship between the ruling family of Tunis and the government, thus revealing how the private space of the palace mirrored the public political s…
From TUNeZine to Nhar 3la 3mmar
In mid-November 2010, prominent bloggers Lina ben Mhenni and Arabasta began a campaign to attract new voices to the Tunisian blogosphere under the rubric “7ell blog”[2] or “start blogging” through an eponymous webpage and Facebook group. Posts included instructions for beginners, links to hosting sites, explanations on how to add videos or how to participate in an aggregator, and debates about whether bloggers should write anonymously. By early J…
The Development of Islamic Law and Society in the Maghrib
The development of Islamic law and society in the Maghrib: Qād⪽ī s, Muftī s, and family law, by David S. Powers, Burlington VT, Ashgate, 2011, xii and 342 pp., $149.95, ISBN 978-1-4094-0370-8 David
Roderick Cavaliero, Ottomania
Escalves et maîtres
Between Arab and White
Book Review| October 01 2011 Between Arab and White: Race and Ethnicity in the Early Syrian American Diaspora Between Arab and White: Race and Ethnicity in the Early Syrian American Diaspora. By Sarah Gualtieri. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. xv + 270 pp. Photos, illustrations, notes, index, and bibliography. $55 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). Amy Aisen Kallander Amy Aisen Kallander Search for other works by this author on: This Site G…
Miniskirts and “Beatniks”
In the decade following independence, the Tunisian state embraced secular feminism as part of the single-party monopoly on political life and economic development. Yet its celebration of new family laws as an aspect of modernization was marred by anxieties about the sexual and moral implications of modern womanhood. Tracing references to the miniskirt in presidential speeches and the women's press, I demonstrate how efforts to delineate the bound…
Transnational Intimacies and the Construction of the New Nation
This article examines love as a facet of nation building in constructions of modern womanhood and national identity in the 1950s and 1960s. In Tunisia and France, romantic love was evoked to define an urban, middle-class modernity in which the gender norms implicit in companionate marriage signaled a break with the past. These ideals were represented in fiction and women's magazines and elaborated in the novel genre of the advice column. Yet this…
Our Fighting Sisters
Book Review| November 01 2019 Our Fighting Sisters: Nation, Memory, and Gender in Algeria, 1854–2012 Our Fighting Sisters: Nation, Memory, and Gender in Algeria, 1854–2012. Vince, Natalya. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. xxi + 274 pages. isbn 9781526106575. Amy Kallander Amy Kallander AMY KALLANDER is associate professor of Middle East history at Syracuse University. Contact: [email protected]. Search for other works by this…
Between Arab and White
Book Review| October 01 2011 Between Arab and White: Race and Ethnicity in the Early Syrian American Diaspora Between Arab and White: Race and Ethnicity in the Early Syrian American Diaspora. By Sarah Gualtieri. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. xv + 270 pp. Photos, illustrations, notes, index, and bibliography. $55 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). Amy Aisen Kallander Amy Aisen Kallander Search for other works by this author on: This Site G…
Roderick Cavaliero, Ottomania
Escalves et maîtres
Women, Gender, and the Palace Households in Ottoman Tunisia
In this first in-depth study of the ruling family of Tunisia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Kallander investigates the palace as a site of familial and political significance. Through extensive archival research, she elucidates the domestic economy of the palace as well as the changing relationship between the ruling family of Tunis and the government, thus revealing how the private space of the palace mirrored the public political s…
From TUNeZine to Nhar 3la 3mmar
In mid-November 2010, prominent bloggers Lina ben Mhenni and Arabasta began a campaign to attract new voices to the Tunisian blogosphere under the rubric “7ell blog”[2] or “start blogging” through an eponymous webpage and Facebook group. Posts included instructions for beginners, links to hosting sites, explanations on how to add videos or how to participate in an aggregator, and debates about whether bloggers should write anonymously. By early J…
The Development of Islamic Law and Society in the Maghrib
The development of Islamic law and society in the Maghrib: Qād⪽ī s, Muftī s, and family law, by David S. Powers, Burlington VT, Ashgate, 2011, xii and 342 pp., $149.95, ISBN 978-1-4094-0370-8 David
Justice Interrupted
Justice Interrupted: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in the Middle East, by Elizabeth F. Thompson. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2013. xiv, 418 pp. $39.95 US (cloth). Elizabeth Thompson's Justice Interrupted provides an insightful and engaging synthesis of how range of liberal, Islamic, democratic, socialist, and radical movements across the Middle East interpreted and applied the concept of justice. Thompson reveals the deep in…
Liat Kozma. Global Women, Colonial Ports
Liat Kozma’s Global Women, Colonial Ports: Prostitution in the Interwar Middle East is an ambitious study of prostitution that gestures toward transnational phenomena such as migration (forced and voluntary) while zeroing in on British and French colonies in the Middle East. As the majority of prostitutes of the day did not leave written records, Kozma approaches the topic by alternating between policy deliberations at the League of Nations; effo…
Miniskirts and “Beatniks”
In the decade following independence, the Tunisian state embraced secular feminism as part of the single-party monopoly on political life and economic development. Yet its celebration of new family laws as an aspect of modernization was marred by anxieties about the sexual and moral implications of modern womanhood. Tracing references to the miniskirt in presidential speeches and the women's press, I demonstrate how efforts to delineate the bound…
Our Fighting Sisters
Book Review| November 01 2019 Our Fighting Sisters: Nation, Memory, and Gender in Algeria, 1854–2012 Our Fighting Sisters: Nation, Memory, and Gender in Algeria, 1854–2012. Vince, Natalya. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. xxi + 274 pages. isbn 9781526106575. Amy Kallander Amy Kallander AMY KALLANDER is associate professor of Middle East history at Syracuse University. Contact: [email protected]. Search for other works by this…
Mediating Museums
Virginie Rey’s exploration of museum curation in Tunisia from the in Tunisia from the period of French colonial rule (1881–1956) through the early years following the 2011 revolution considers thei
Tunisia's Modern Woman
Transnational Intimacies and the Construction of the New Nation
This article examines love as a facet of nation building in constructions of modern womanhood and national identity in the 1950s and 1960s. In Tunisia and France, romantic love was evoked to define an urban, middle-class modernity in which the gender norms implicit in companionate marriage signaled a break with the past. These ideals were represented in fiction and women's magazines and elaborated in the novel genre of the advice column. Yet this…
Decorative Arts of the Tunisian École
The radical spirit accompanying decolonization movements in the 1950s and 1960s epitomized by the Algerian War of Independence extended well beyond politics to foster an array of conversations about social and cultural change. Moroccan writers, Palestinian poets, and Iraqi artists embraced the potential of public intellectuals to contribute to these transformations. Whether publishing journals, performing at festivals, or creating monuments, they…
Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · History (7 works) · Art (6 works) · History (5 works) · Islamic Studies and History (5 works) · North African History and Literature (5 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)