Women Rising : In and Beyond the Arab Spring / edited by Rita Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Charrad, Mounira 1942- Sonstige.

Stephan, Rita, Sonstige.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working class.

Women's rights.

Women--Political activity.

Women.

Yemen.

Tunisia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 406 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2020].

Summary:

Groundbreaking essays by female activists and scholars documenting women's resistance before, during, and after the Arab SpringImages of women protesting in the Arab Spring, from Tahrir Square to the streets of Tunisia and Syria, have become emblematic of the political upheaval sweeping the Middle East and North Africa. In Women Rising, Rita Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad bring together a provocative group of scholars, activists, artists, and more, highlighting the first-hand experiences of these remarkable women. In this relevant and timely volume, Stephan and Charrad paint a picture of women's political resistance in sixteen countries before, during, and since the Arab Spring protests first began in 2011. Contributors provide insight into a diverse range of perspectives across the entire movement, focusing on often-marginalized voices, including rural women, housewives, students, and artists. Women Rising offers an on-the-ground understanding of an important twenty-first century movement, telling the story of Arab women's activism.

Contents:

Women rising

Frontmatter

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.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4798-5696-7

OCLC:

1153084016