North African Women After the Arab Spring: In the Eye of the Storm

ISBN-13: 9783319499253 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 255 str.

Larbi Touaf; Soumia Boutkhil; Chourouq Nasri

Opis

Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, the contributors discuss a host of questions related to women and gender in the Arab world and address the broader question of why women's efforts and momentum during the revolution did not seem to pay off the same way they did for men.

Spis treści

1. Introduction

Soumia Boutkhil

2. Post-2011 Pressures For Expanded Female Citizenship And Family Law Reform In Mena: Theorizing On Change Amidst Political Transition

Rania Maktabi

3. The Liberating Force Of Art, Humor And Social Media: Women Cartoonists Of The Arab Spring 

Chourouq Nasri

4. The Arab Spring And Women’s Rights Activism On Facebook

André Fecteau

5. Watered-down Feminism: An Examination of Gender And Revolutionary Ideals In Morocco

Jessica Lambert

6. “Tradition And Modernity” Or The Ambivalent Public Sphere: Women’s Political Participation In Morocco Before And After The Arab Spring

Larbi Touaf

7. Who’s Under The Robe? On Women In The Judicial System In Morocco

Soumia Boutkhil

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8. The Women’s Movement And The 20 February Movement In Morocco: An Awkward Relationship

Lenie Brouwer and Edien Bartels

9. Mediated Femininity And Female Citizenship In Moroccan Electronic News Sites–Hespress.com As A Case Study

Soumia Ben Rochd

10. The Reform Of The Moroccan Family Law And Women’s Daily Life: Navigating Between Structural Constraints And Personal Agency

Oka Storms and Edien Bartels

11. Winds Of Change: Egypt’s Islamic Family Law Between Two Centuries (1920-2013)

Nadia Nader and Riham E.A. Debian

12. Women In Libya: The Ongoing Armed Conflict, Political Instability and Radicalization

Asmae Khalifa

O autorze

Larbi Touaf is Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies, and former Chair of the English Department at Mohammed I University, Oujda, Morocco. His research explores the intersections of culture, politics, and literature.

Soumia Boutkhil is Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies at Mohammed I University, Oujda, Morocco. Her research focuses on feminine literature and women’s status in Morocco, particularly on the problematic intersections of law and religion.

Chourouq Nasri is Associate Professor of English, Media and Gender Studies at Mohamed I University, Morocco. Her research and publications explore the interaction of visual culture, gender, and public space.

Blurb

This book looks with hindsight at the Arab Spring and sheds light on the debates it triggered within North African societies and the alarming developments in women’s rights. Although women played a key role in the success of the uprisings that wiped out long ruling oligarchies across the region, they remain excluded from decision-making circles and the formal political and electoral apparatus. Women's rights are written off constitution drafts, and issues of gender equality are hardly addressed. The chapters that compose this volume present research and reflections from different perspectives to help the reader get a better picture of the profound turmoil that beset this part of the so-called “Arab” World. Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, the contributors discuss a host of questions related to women and gender in the Arab world and address the broader question of why women's efforts and momentum during the revolution did not seem to pay off the same way they did for men. This book provides an assessment of the situation from the inside. It is intended to help the general public as well as the academic world comprehend the significance of what is going on in this key part of the Islamic World.