Frances S. Hasso’s book, Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction and Death in Modern Palestine, published by Cambridge University Press (2022), is available in hardback and as a Creative Commons open access e-book. Buried in the Red Dirt won the 2023 Interdisciplinary Studies Section (IDSS) of the International Studies Association Best Book Award. Recently published articles include, “Beyond the Treatment Room: The Psyche-Body-Society Care Politics of Cairo’s El-Nadeem,” in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (2023); “‘I Have Ambition’: Muhammad Ramadan’s Proletarian Masculinities in Postrevolution Egyptian Cinema,” in International Journal of Middle East Studies (2020); “Masculine Love and Sensuous Reason: The Affective and Spatial Politics of Egyptian Ultras Football Fans,” in Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography (2018); “Decolonizing Middle East Men and Masculinities Scholarship: An Axiomatic Approach,” in Arab Studies Journal Online (2018); and “Civil and the Limits of Politics in Revolutionary Egypt,” in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015).
In 2016 she published with Zakia Salime Freedom without Permission: Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions (Duke University Press), which includes a sole-authored chapter on Bahrain available in English below that has been recently translated into French by Mélodie Breton-Grangeat and published in Le genre en révolution (2023). Her 2011 monograph, Consuming Desires: Family Crisis and the State in the Middle East (Stanford University Press 2011), won a 2011 Outstanding Academic Title Award from Choice Magazine. She is also author of Resistance, Repression and Gender Politics in Occupied Palestine and Jordan, which has been republished and licensed under the Creative Commons (Syracuse University Press 2005).
Books
Frances S. Hasso. Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction and Death in Modern Palestine. Cambridge University Press 2022. Available open access and hardback with a 20 percent discount. Interview about Buried in the Red Dirt is available on Jadaliyya’s NEWTON.
Frances S. Hasso and Zakia Salime (eds.). Freedom without Permission: Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions. Duke University Press 2016.
Click here to read Freedom without Permission, “Introduction”
Frances S. Hasso. Consuming Desires: Family Crisis and the State in the Middle East. Stanford University Press 2011.
Frances S. Hasso. Resistance, Repression and Gender Politics in Occupied Palestine and Jordan. Syracuse University Press 2005. Available open access and in paperback.
Articles, Essays, Interviews
Frances S. Hasso. “Beyond the Treatment Room: The Psyche-Body-Society Care Politics of Cairo’s El-Nadeem.” “Complexities of Care and Caring” special issue of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Vol. 49, No. 1 (Autumn 2023): 7-35.
Frances S. Hasso. “La politique et l’intrication entre confession religieuse, sexe et police (Bahreïn),” 87-117. Traduction de l’anglais par Mélodie Breton-Grange, dans Sarah Barrières, Abir Kréfa et Saba Le Renard (dir.), Le genre en révolution: 2010-2020 (Maghreb et Moyen-Orient). (Presses Universitaires de Lyon, Lyon) Novembre 2023. https://books.openedition.org/pul/52056
Frances S. Hasso. “Privileging ‘the Family’ in Analysis of War: A Provocation.” Civil Society Review. Thematic issue on War: A Catalyst for the Transformation of Families? Edited by Dr. Valentina Napolitano, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD – France), Issue 6 (November 2023): 111-118. https://civilsociety-centre.org/sites/default/files/resources/cessra-csrissue_6-nov23-online.pdf
Frances S. Hasso. “‘I Have Ambition’: Muhammad Ramadan’s Proletarian Masculinities in Postrevolution Egyptian Cinema.” International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 52, Issue 2 (May 2020): 197-214.
Frances S. Hasso. “Masculine Love and Sensuous Reason: The Affective and Spatial Politics of Egyptian Ultras Football Fans.” Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, Vol. 25, No. 10, 2018: 1423-1447.
Frances S. Hasso. “Generations.” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2018: 265-267.
Frances S. Hasso, “Decolonizing Middle East Men and Masculinities Scholarship: An Axiomatic Approach.” Arab Studies Journal Online, 15 October 2018.
Frances S. Hasso. “Entering and Remaking Spaces: Young Palestinian Feminists in Jerusalem.” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2, 2017: 337-345.
Frances S. Hasso. “Civil and the Limits of Politics in Revolutionary Egypt.”Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Vol. 35, No. 3, 2015: 605-621.
Frances S. Hasso. “Bargaining with the Devil: States and Intimate Life.” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2014: 107-134.
Frances S. Hasso, Podcast, “Since the Revolutions: The Challenge of Contemporary Middle East Studies.” Stanford University Press Blog, 4 January 2014.
Frances S. Hasso, “Alternative Worlds at the 2013 World Social Forum in Tunis,” Jadaliyya, May 1, 2013.
Frances S. Hasso, “Arab Feminism,” Interviewed on Riz Khan Show, al-Jazeera, March 1, 2011.
Frances S. Hasso. Review of Desiring Arabs (Joseph Massad). Journal of the History of Sexuality Vol. 20, No. 3 (September 2011): 652-656.
Lila Abu-Lughod, Fida Adely, Frances Hasso. “Overview: Engaging the Arab Human Development Report 2005 on Women.” International Journal of Middle East Studies Vol. 41, No. 1 (February 2009) :59-60.
Frances S. Hasso. “Empowering Governmentalities Rather than Women: The Arab Human Development Report 2005 and Western Development Logics.” International Journal of Middle East Studies Vol. 41, No. 1 (February 2009): 63-82.
Frances S. Hasso. “Culture Knowledge’ and the Violence of Imperialism: Revisiting The Arab Mind.” MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies 7 (Spring 2007): 24-40.
Frances S. Hasso. “Problems and Promise in Middle East and North Africa Gender Research.” Feminist Studies, vol. 31, no. 3 (Fall 2005): 653-678.
Frances S. Hasso. “Discursive & Political Deployments by/of the 2002 Palestinian Women Suicide Bombers/Martyrs.” Feminist Review, Issue 81, “Bodily Interventions” (November 2005): 23-51.
Frances S. Hasso. “Feminist Generations? The Long-Term Impact of Social Movement Involvement on Palestinian Women’s Lives.” American Journal of Sociology, vol. 107, no. 3 (November 2001): 586-611. Republished in Social Movements: Readings on their Emergence, Mobilization and Dynamics, edited by Doug McAdam and David A. Snow (Oxford University Press, 2009).
Frances S. Hasso. “Modernity and Gender in Arab Accounts of the 1948 and 1967 Defeats.” International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 32 (November 2000): 491-510.
Frances S. Hasso. “‘The Women’s Front:’ Nationalism, Feminism and Modernity in Palestine.” Gender & Society, vol. 12, no. 4, August 1998: 441-465.
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