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Call for Papers for MESA 2011
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"Shifting Gender Categories in the Post-Ottoman Middle East"
This panel at MESA 2011 will explore gender identity in the post-World War I Middle East, focusing on the ways in which gender categories are represented and utilized both by emerging nationalist elites and colonial authorities. The purpose of this panel is to extend the focus of this research by exploring the significance of wider categories of gender, that is, not only femininity, but also masculinity, childhood, youth and sexual identity, in both colonial administrations and anti-colonial nationalist movements in the Middle East in the decades following World War I.The papers currently in this panel will consider the following questions:
How were these extended categories of gender created in the crucible of the modern Middle East and how did they influence each other, both ideologically and in lived experience?
Did nationalist elites or colonial authorities play the dominant role in the creation of new gender categories or were they created in the critical interaction between the two?
How did regional and global developments, such as uprisings, wars, and economic and political crises, work to define gender categories in the Middle East after World War I?
And what role did non-elite populations and popular culture play in the creation of gender categories?
We are particularly looking for additional papers that consider gender in the context of nationalism and/or colonialism in Turkey, Syria, Lebanon or Palestine in the early or mid 20th century.
If you are interested in treating any of these questions, please email Ahmet Serdar Akturk (aakturk@uark.edu) or Helena Kaler (hjkaler@gwmail.gwu.edu) no later than January 28 with your proposed topic or abstract.
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