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Women of the Midan : the untold stories of Egypt's revolutionaries / Sherine Hafez.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hafez, Sherine, author.
- Series:
- Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women revolutionaries--Egypt--History--21st century.
- Women revolutionaries.
- Women--Egypt--Social conditions--21st century.
- Women.
- Women--Egypt--Biography.
- Social conditions.
- History.
- Egypt--History--Protests, 2011-2013.
- Egypt.
- Women--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xliv, 216 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- Though the testimonies of Egyptian women who participated in the revolution, Women of the Midan foregrounds the role of the gendered body as an agent of collective action and transformation--a practice and process that challenges traditional notions of how women are represented in the Middle East.
- Contents:
- Recentering Gender in Revolution : Timeline 2011 to 2015
- Telling the Stories of Revolutionary Women
- Gender and Corporeality in Egypt : A History
- Gender, Class, and Revolt in Neoliberal Cairo
- The Lived Experience of Women's Struggle
- Bodies That Protest
- The Specter of Gender Violence
- Taking Resistance Virtually : Corporeality and Sexual Taboos.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Arab American Book Award - Non-Fiction, Honorable Mention, 2020
- Other Format:
- Online version: Hafez, Sherine, author. Women of the Midan
- ISBN:
- 9780253040619
- 0253040612
- 9780253040602
- 0253040604
- OCLC:
- 1048134206
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