ISBN:
9780253040602
,
9780253040619
Language:
English
Pages:
xliv, 216 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.40962/0905
Keywords:
Women revolutionaries History 21st century
;
Women Social conditions 21st century
;
Women Biography
;
Egypt History Protests, 2011-2013
;
Ägypten
;
Arabischer Frühling
;
Frau
Abstract:
In 'Women of the Midan', Sherine Hafez demonstrates how women were a central part of revolutionary process of the Arab Spring. Women not only protested in the streets of Cairo, they demanded democracy, social justice, and renegotiation of a variety of sociocultural structures that repressed and disciplined them. Women's resistance to state control, Islamism, neoliberal market changes, the military establishment, and patriarchal systems forged new paths of dissent and transformation. Through firsthand accounts of women who participated in the revolution, Hafez illustrates how the gendered body signifies collective action and the revolutionary narrative. Using the concept of rememory, Hafez shows how the body is inseparably linked to the trauma of the revolutionary struggle. While delving into the complex weave of public space, government control, masculinity, and religious and cultural norms, Hafez sheds light on women's relationship to the state in the Arab world today and how the state, in turn, shapes individuals and marks gendered bodies.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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