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Title Rethinking Gender in Revolutions and Resistance : Lessons from the Arab world / edited by Maha El Said, Lena Meari and Nicola Pratt
Published London, UK : Zed Books Ltd., 2015
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Contents Introduction : Rethinking Gender in Revolutions and Resistance in the Arab World / Maha El Said, Lena Meari and Nicola Pratt -- Reconstructing gender in Post-Revolution Egypt / Shereen Abouelnaga -- Resignifying 'Sexual' Colonial Power Techniques : The Experiences of Palestinian Women Political Prisoners / Lena Meari -- A Strategic Use of Culture : Egyptian Women's Subversion and Resignigication of Gender Norms / Hala G. Sami -- She Resists : Body Politics between Radical and Subaltern / Maha El Said -- Framing the Female Body : Beyond Morality and Pathology? / Abeer Al-Najjar and Anoud Abusalim -- Women's Bodies in Post-Revolution Libya : Control and Resistance / Sahar Mediha Alnaas and Nicola Pratt -- Islamic Feminism and the Equivocation of Political Engagement : 'Fair is foul, and foul is fair' / Omaima Abou-Bakr -- Islamic and Secular Women's Activism and Discourses in Post-Uprising Tunisia / Aitemad Muhanna -- Conclusion : Towards New Epistemologies and Ontologies of Gender and Socio-Political Transformation in the Arab World / Maha El Said, Lena Meari and Nicola Pratt -- About the Contributors -- Index
Summary How political turmoil and dissent are re-shaping gender roles in the Arab world
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Women -- Political activity -- Arab countries
Women's rights -- Arab countries
Gender studies: women.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Women -- Political activity
Women's rights
Arab countries
Form Electronic book
Author El Said, Maha, editor
Meari, Lena, editor
Pratt, Nicola, editor
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