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Pensée 1: Private Reflections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 May 2007

Fadwa El Guindi
Affiliation:
Department of Social Sciences, University of Qatar, Doha, Qatar; e-mail: [email protected]

Extract

I consider it nontrivial that IJMES invites reflection on the question, “What is private in the Middle East?” without positioning “private” against “public.” Conceptually, a private–public polarity refers to a division of space that has become reified into a heuristic paradigm used to describe gendered social and cultural activities.

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© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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