The Tunisian Women's Rights Movement: From Nascent Activism to Influential Power-broking

ISBN-13: 9780367887230 / Angielski / MiÄ™kka / 2019 / 162 str.

Jane D. Tchaicha; Khedija Arfaoui

Opis

This book examines Tunisian women’s lived experiences, as individuals and as a group, within a socio-historical framework that uncovers the enduring feminine footprint over centuries and eventually underpins and defines their most recent fight for gender equality in post-revolutionary Tunisia. The historic and current presentation of the Tunisia

Spis treści

1. Introduction

2. Historical Underpinnings of the Modern Tunisian Woman

3. Tunisia’s Independence and Women’s First Steps towards Emancipation

4. A New Kind of Women’s Movement Finds its Footing

5. Women Talking: Generational Voices at the Dawn of the New Millennium

6. Socio-political Implosion, Revolutionary Euphoria, and Women’s Engagement

7. Women Shape the New Constitution

8. Conclusion—Constraints and Future Steps

O autorze

Jane D. Tchaïcha is Professor of Modern Languages at Bentley University, USA.

Khedija Arfaoui is an independent scholar based in Tunisia.