Women in Post-Revolutionary Egypt: Can Behaviour Be Controlled?

ISBN-13: 9783631717356 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 226 str.

Hervik Peter; Mette Toft Nielsen

Opis

The book addresses how Identity, structure and agency affect women's everyday lives in post-revolutionary Egypt. Through interviews and workshops, women around Egypt express their own experiences in dialogue, in groups and in drawings. The reader get insights into personal experiences of a diverse group of women.

Spis treści

Egypt - Women - Post-revolution - Identity - Agency - Sexual harassment - Female genital mutilation - Male superiority - Political representation - Role of religion.

O autorze

Peter Hervik is anthropologist, Professor in Migration studies at the Department of Culture and Global Studies, at Aalborg University, Denmark. Hervik has conducted research among the Yucatec Maya of Mexico and on the representation in the news media of religious and ethnic minorities in Denmark, particularly themes of radical right wing populism, neonationalism, neoracism, ethnicitzation, Islamophobia and related issues.

Mette Toft Nielsen studied Culture, Communication and Globalization at Aalborg University, Denmark. She went to Egypt in 2012 to write her thesis and engage herself in the field of education. Through these experiences she got inspiration for the present study.