Women rising : in and beyond the Arab Spring /
""Women Rising" explores feminist issues in and beyond the Arab Spring"--
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Charrad, M. editor. Stephan, Rita, editor. |
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | New York : New York University Press, [2020] |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Table of 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 THEYT 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
- 32. New media/new feminism(s): the Lebanese women's movement online and offline
- PART V. HOW THEY ORGANIZE. 33. Genesis of gender and women's studies at the University of Fez, Morocco
- 34. My revolution!
- 35. Women's political participation in Bahrain
- 36. Strategies of nonviolent resistance: Syrian women subverting dominant paradigms
- 37. Driving campaigns: Saudi women negotiating power in the public space
- 38. Reclaiming space(s): Kuwaiti women in the Karamat Watan protests
- 39. "The factory of the revolution": women's activism in the Syrian uprisings
- 40. Arab American women and the Arab Spring: an interview with Summer Nasser
- Acknowledgments
- About the editors
- About the contributors
- Index.