Women rising : in and beyond the Arab Spring /

Women rising : in and beyond the Arab Spring /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Stephan, Rita (Editor), Charrad, M. (Mounira) (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Women > Political activity > Arab countries.
Women's rights > Arab countries.
Feminism > Arab countries.
Women > Arab countries > Social conditions > 21st century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction: Advancing Women's Rights in the Arab World
  • Part I. What They Fight For
  • 1. Barefoot Feminist Classes: A Revelation of Being, Doing, and Becoming
  • 2. The Labor Strikes That Catalyzed the Revolution in Egypt
  • 3. From a Smear Campaign to the Kuwaiti Parliament: My Resolve Persists Despite Rumors
  • 4. Palestinian Queerness and the Orientalist Paradigm
  • 5. "With All My Force ...": Men against Domestic Violence in Lebanon
  • 6. "Ne Touche Pas Mes Enfants!": A Woman's Campaign against Pedophilia in Morocco
  • 7. Two Nonviolence Campaigns Initiated by Women in Syria
  • 8. Refusing the Backseat: Women as Drivers of the Yemeni Uprisings
  • Part II. What They Believe
  • 9. "Women Are Complete, Not Complements": Terminology in the Writing of the New Constitution of Tunisia
  • 10. A Patriotic Christian Woman in the Syrian Parliament
  • 11. Iraqi Women's Agency: From Political Authoritarianism to Sectarianism and Islamist Militancy
  • 12. Hidden Voices, Hidden Agendas: Qubaysiat Women's Group in Syria
  • 13. The Egyptian Revolution and the Feminist Divide
  • 14. Algerian Feminists Navigate Authoritarianism
  • 15. Failing the Masses in Syria: Buthaina Shabaan and the Public Intellectual Crisis
  • 16. Time to Seize the Opportunity: A Call for Action from Sudan
  • Part III. How They Express Agency
  • 17. Long before the Arab Spring: Arab Women's Cyberactivism through AWSA United
  • 18. Aliaa Elmahdy, Nude Protest, & Transnational Feminist Body Politics
  • 19. Sensing Queer Activism in Beirut: Protest Soundscapes as Political Dissent
  • 20. On the Contrary: Negation as Resistance and Reimagining in the Work of Bahia Shehab
  • 21. Half Syrian Sufi Blogger: Faith and Activism in the Virtual Public Space
  • 22. The Light in Her Eyes: A Woman Is a School. Teach Her and You Teach a Generation: An Interview with Filmmakers Julia Meltzer and Laura Nix
  • 23. Writing Lebanese Feminist History: Rose Ghurayyib's Editorial Letters in Al-Raida Journal from 1976 to 1985
  • 24. Um Sahar, the Adeni Woman Leader in al-Hirak Southern Independence Movement in Yemen
  • Part IV. How They Use Space to Mobilize
  • 25. Marching with Revolutionary Women in Egypt: A Participatory Journal
  • 26. Memories of Martyrs: Disappearance and Women's Claims against State Violence in Libya
  • 27. Mapping the Egyptian Women's Anti-Sexual Harassment Campaigns
  • 28. A Village Rises in the First Intifada: International Women's Day, March 8, 1988
  • 29. Revolutionary Graffiti and Cairene Women: Performing Agency through Gaze Aversion
  • 30. Celebrating Women's Day in Baghdad, the City of Men
  • 31. Waiting for the Revolution: Women's Perceptions from Upper and Lower Rural Egypt