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Women of the Midan : the untold stories of Egypt's revolutionaries / Sherine Hafez

Hafez, Sherine [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019]

xliv, 216 Seiten : Illustrationen

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references

Erscheint auch als: (Online-Ausgabe)

978-0-253-04060-2 (hardback); 978-0-253-04061-9 (paperback)

978-0-253-04064-0 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2019010974

OCoLC: 1184742935     

LB 44495      Ähnliche Literatur

HQ1793

305.40962/0905

FIV Notation: RG01.16: Naher und Mittlerer Osten und Nordafrika / Nordafrika / Ägypten ; SG02.02: Gesellschaft / Gesellschaftsentwicklung/Gesellschaftsstruktur / Gesellschaftliche Gruppen

*Ägypten ; Arabischer Frühling ; Frau      Zum Register

FIV-Themen: Ägypten ; Bevölkerungsgruppe ; Frauen ; Revolutionäre Orientierung ; Gesellschaftliche/Politische Bewegung ; Revolutionäre Bewegung ; Arabischer Frühling ; Geschlechterrolle/Geschlechterverhältnis ; Genderpolitik ; Klassenkampf ; Sexuelle Gewalt ; Gewalt gegen Frauen

FIV-Aspekte: Fallstudie ; Kairo ; Neoliberalismus

LOC-SH: Women revolutionaries -- Egypt -- History -- 21st century ; Women -- Egypt -- Social conditions -- 21st century ; Women -- Egypt -- Biography ; Egypt -- History -- Protests, 2011-2013

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.