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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788130203321

Titolo

Rethinking gender in revolutions and resistance : lessons from the Arab world / / edited by Maha El Said, Lena Meari and Nicola Pratt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2015

[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2021

ISBN

1-350-22231-3

1-78360-282-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 pages)

Disciplina

305.4/09174927

Soggetti

Women - Political activity - Arab countries

Women's rights - Arab countries

Gender studies: women

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; Introduction : Rethinking Gender in Revolutions and Resistance in the Arab World / Maha El Said, Lena Meari and Nicola Pratt -- Reconstructing gender in Post-Revolution Egypt / Shereen Abouelnaga -- Resignifying 'Sexual' Colonial Power Techniques : The Experiences of Palestinian Women Political Prisoners / Lena Meari -- A Strategic Use of Culture : Egyptian Women's Subversion and Resignigication of Gender Norms / Hala G. Sami -- She Resists : Body Politics between Radical and Subaltern / Maha El Said -- Framing the Female Body : Beyond Morality and Pathology? / Abeer Al-Najjar and Anoud Abusalim -- Women's Bodies in Post-Revolution Libya : Control and Resistance / Sahar Mediha Alnaas and Nicola Pratt -- Islamic Feminism and the Equivocation of Political Engagement : 'Fair is foul, and foul is fair' / Omaima Abou-Bakr -- 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 -- ; About the Contributors -- ; Index.

Sommario/riassunto

How political turmoil and dissent are re-shaping gender roles in the Arab world.