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Rethinking gender in revolutions and resistance : lessons from the Arab world
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- Summary
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How political turmoil and dissent are re-shaping gender roles in the Arab world.
Details
- Creator
- edited by Maha El Said, Lena Meari and Nicola Pratt
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- London, England : Zed Books, 2015
- [London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (274 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9781350222311, 1350222313, 9781783602827, 1783602821, 178360283X, 1783602848
- OCLC
- ocn909367814
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Also published in print.
- English
- 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 / About the Contributors -- Index