Biography of a Revolution : The Feminist Roots of Human Rights in Egypt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sorbera, Lucia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism--Egypt--History.

Feminism.

Women's rights--Egypt.

Women's rights.

Feminists--Egypt--Biography.

Feminists.

Women political activists--Egypt--Biography.

Women political activists.

Human rights--Egypt.

Human rights.

Social movements--Egypt--History.

Social movements.

Revolutions--Egypt--History--21st century.

Revolutions.

Egypt--History--Protests, 2011-2013.

Egypt.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2025.

Summary:

It is not Egypt's 2011 revolution that opened a space for women's and feminist activism, but--as this book shows--the long history of women's activism that created the intellectual and political background for revolution. By centering the experiences and ideas of multiple generations of women activists and intellectuals, Lucia Sorbera traces the feminist genealogies of Egypt's nationalist, student, Marxist, labor, human rights, and democratic social movements. Biography of a Revolution gathers a series of interrelated intimate and relational stories, charting in vivid detail the entanglements between women's aspirations across a century of politics and friendships. This historical analysis innovatively deploys decolonial and indigenous feminist epistemologies, bringing women's, gender, and feminist history into the center of Egypt's political, social, and intellectual history. More than a decade after the 2013 military coup, women's intellectual and political activism remains crucial to keeping the embers of revolution aglow.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration, Transcription, and Translation

Introduction

Part One: The Long Feminist Century in Egypt

1. Genealogies of Women's Activism

2. The Fight for Women's Bodily Rights: The FGM Task Force

3. Gendered Dimensions of the Post-Cold War Order in Egypt

4. Toward a Women's History of the Human Rights Movement in Egypt

Part Two: Feminist Lives in Egypt

5. Practicing Feminist Psychiatry as Human Rights Activism: Aida Seif El-Dawla, Suzan Fayad, and Magda Adly

6. Conceptualizing Women's Rights within the Family as Human Rights: The Intellectual and Grassroots Work of Azza Soliman

7. Toward an Ethics of Care: The Political Journey of Gameela Ismail

8. Transgenerational Legacies in the Early 2000s Social Movements: Mahienour El-Massry and Sana. al-Masri

Part Three: Toward New Ways of Being, Knowing, and Doing

9. January 25, 2011: A New Feminist Beginning

10. Historicizing the Egyptian Revolution: The Politics of Memory and Transmission

11. Sexual Violence, Power, Freedom, and the Emergence of a New Feminist Discourse

12. The Twenty-First-Century Egyptian Women's Prisons Notebooks

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780520394766

0520394763

OCLC:

1513423291