Drawing on a reading of MERIP's articles related to women's and gender studies over the course of its 50-year history, this piece reflects on how MERIP's forays into this field formed part of its overarching aspiration to place scholarship in the service of progressive political projects. I explore how intellectual trends and political commitments worked together to shape the topics and approaches related to gender that appeared in MERIP's pages. The political purposes of knowledge production were omnipresent in the minds of authors and editors, and we see evidence of a conscious program of critique of past scholarship on women and gender in the region, as well as sustained attention to research and writing that could connect, or perhaps even be useful, to struggles in the Middle East region and the amelioration of U.S. policy. The framing of issues varied over time, from a focus on political economy to political action to broader cultural questions, in rhythm with shifts in scholarly paradigms and events on the ground.

通过阅读 MERIP 在其 50 年历史中与女性和性别研究相关的文章，这篇文章反映了 MERIP 涉足这一领域是如何成为其将学术服务于进步政治项目的总体愿望的一部分。我探讨了知识趋势和政治承诺如何共同塑造 MERIP 页面中出现的与性别相关的主题和方法。知识生产的政治目的在作者和编辑的脑海中无处不在，我们看到有证据表明对该地区过去关于女性和性别的学术进行有意识的批评计划，以及对研究和写作的持续关注可以联系，甚至可能对中东地区的斗争和美国政策的改善有用。