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• W961854811 abstract "States of Law and Sexuality in the Middle East Nancy Y. Reynolds (bio) Janet Afary. Sexual Politics in Modern Iran. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xv + 423 pp.; ill. ISBN 978-0-521-72708-2 (pb). Laura Bier. Revolutionary Womanhood: Feminisms, Modernity, and the State in Nasser’s Egypt. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. xi + 245 pp.; ill. ISBN 978-0-8047-7439-0 (pb). Noga Efrati. Women in Iraq: Past Meets Present. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. xviii + 236 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-15814-5 (cl). Frances S. Hasso. Consuming Desires: Family Crisis and the State in the Middle East. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. xi + 256 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-6156-7 (pb). Karen M. Kern. Imperial Citizen: Marriage and Citizenship in the Ottoman Frontier Provinces of Iraq. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011. xiv + 186 pp. ISBN 978-0-8156-3285-6 (cl). In a 1992 essay on the retrenchment in gender politics in 1970s Egypt, the political scientist Mervat Hatem introduced the concept of “state feminism” to describe mid-century reforms inaugurated under the charismatic but authoritarian Egyptian president Gamal `Abd al-Nasser: “state feminism . . . produced women who were economically independent of their families, but dependent on the state for employment, important social services like education, health, and day care, and political representation.”1 Originally developed to describe the efforts of Scandinavian welfare states “to remove the structural basis of gender inequality by making reproduction a public— not a private—concern and by employing increasing numbers of women in the state sector,” the concept became shorthand for understanding the paradox of Middle Eastern women’s movements, which often allied with repressive states. 2 In Egypt, a leading country in the Arab world, a vibrant women’s movement emerged in the liberal 1920s, along with substantive reforms to the Muslim personal status laws governing family relations (including marriage, divorce, child custody, and inheritance); a dramatic increase of the presence of women in public during the 1950s and 1960s under Nasserist state socialism was coupled, however, with an absence [End Page 182] of any significant family law reform. Hatem concluded, “the emerging patriarchal system relaxed public control of women (their seclusion, education, and work), while continuing to maintain private control through the personal status laws.”3 Since Hatem’s pioneering work, historians of Middle Eastern women have questioned implicit Western assumptions about “liberation” and secularism, without abandoning the analytical triumvirate of women, the state, and Islamic patriarchy (the latter often a code for “men”). All five books under review here share this thematic orientation, although several of them break new ground by documenting the variety and fluidity of legal and social systems before and after the consolidation of modern states. In Consuming Desires, Frances Hasso argues that this tendency represents more than analytical lag. What makes the region unique is “the state’s self-appointed role as the guardian of moral behavior, which Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) states more than others consider to be within their ambit, to some degree in lieu of political legitimacy and accountability” (169). She suggests that this is partly a result of Islamic legal systems, but also argues that “family patriarchy” acts to compensate men otherwise disenfranchised in undemocratic states (171). Most importantly, however, Hasso asserts quite unconventionally that “MENA states support women in their family policies and politics more often than is recognized by feminist scholarship, and women may disproportionately rely on these authoritarian states for their ability to control men and extract resources from them” (171). In other words, strong states are good for Middle Eastern women. I suspect that another explanation for the thematic persistence of states and personal status reform in Middle East women’s history written in English is a methodological reliance on laws, debates, state policies, and public activism due to archival imbalances in the region. Foreign researchers have found state archives and the press, including a robust women’s press, more accessible (and plentiful) than family or private papers, or archives from private institutions such as workplaces, unions, schools, or mosques. This problem, which affects the history of women and non-elites especially, has drawn many women’s studies scholars to..." @default.
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