Gender, Women and the Arab Spring

ISBN-13: 9780367738808 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 144 str.

Andrea Khalil

Opis

This book will inform and educate the reader about the struggles for gender rights across North Africa. It provides historical context, first-hand insight and critical analysis of women’s struggles on the ground since the onset of the Arab Spring.

This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of North African Stud

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Gender paradoxes of the Arab Spring  2. Modernising women and democratisation after the Arab Spring  3. The Arab Spring exception: Algeria’s political ambiguities and citizenship rights  4. Political, aesthetic, and ethical positions of Tunisian women artists, 2011–13  5. The revolution shall not pass through women’s bodies: Egypt, uprising and gender politics  6. Tunisia’s women: partners in revolution  7. Gender and state-building in Libya: towards a politics of inclusion  8. Egyptian women and the 25th of January Revolution: presence and absence  9. Equal or complementary? Women in the new Tunisian Constitution after the Arab Spring  10. Young women and social media against sexual harassment in North Africa  11. Working-class women revolt: gendered political economy in Morocco

O autorze

Andrea Khalil, PhD, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Middle East Studies, Queens College, The City University of New York. Khalil is the author of several books and articles on North African including Crowds and Politics in North Africa: Tunisia, Algeria and Libya (2014), North African Cinema in a Global Context: Through the Lens of Diaspora (2008, editor). The Arab Avant-Garde: Experiments in North African Art and Literature (2003).