Rethinking Gender in Revolutions and Resistance: Lessons from the Arab World

ISBN-13: 9781783602827 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 272 str.

Professor Maha El Said; Palestine) Lena Meari (Birzeit University;Nicola Pratt

Opis

Ever since the wave of uprisings that swept the Arab world in 2010, Arab women and their role in political transformations have received unprecedented media attention. The copious scrutiny and commentary, however, has yet to result in any serious study of fluctuating gender roles in the Middle East. Rethinking Gender in Revolutions and Resistance is the first book to analyze the shifts in gender roles, relations, and norms that have occurred since the Arab Spring. With chapters written by scholars and activists from the countries affected, including Palestine, Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and Syria, this is an important addition to Middle Eastern gender studies.

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Introduction: Rethinking Gender in Revolutions and Resistance in the Arab World - Maha El Said, Lena Meari and Nicola Pratt Part 1 The Malleability of Gender and Sexuality in Revolutions and Resistance 1. Reconstructing Gender in Post-revolutionary Egypt - Shereen Abouelnaga 2. Re-signifying 'Sexual' Colonial Power Techniques: The Experiences of Palestinian Women Political Prisoners - Lena Meari 3. A Strategic Use of Culture: Egyptian Women's Subversion and Resignification of Gender Norms - Hala G. Sami Part 2 The Body and Resistance 4. She Resists: Body Politics Between Radical and Subaltern - Maha El-Said 5. Framing the Female Body: Beyond Morality and Pathology? - Abeer Al-Najjar and Anoud Abusalim 6. Women's Bodies in Post-Revolution Libya: Control and Resistance - Sahar Mediha Elnaas and Nicola Pratt Part 3 Gender and the Construction of the Secular/Islamist Binary 7. Islamic Feminism and the Equivocation of Political Engagement: 'Fair is Foul, and Foul is Fair' - Omaima Abou-Bakr 8. Islamic and Secular Women's Activism and Discourses in Post-uprising Tunisia - Aitemad Muhanna Conclusion: Towards New Epistemologies and Ontologies of Gender and Socio-Political Transformation in the Arab World - Maha El Said, Lena Meari and Nicola Pratt