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Author Hafez, Sherine, author

Title Women of the Midan : the untold stories of Egypt's revolutionaries / Sherine Hafez
Published Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2019

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 MELB  305.409620905 Haf/Wot  AVAILABLE
Description xliv, 216 pages ; 23 cm
Series Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa.
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
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Women revolutionaries -- Egypt -- History -- 21st century.
Women -- Egypt -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Women -- Egypt -- Biography.
SUBJECT Egypt -- History -- Protests, 2011-2013. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2011004490
Genre/Form Biographies.
LC no. 2019010974
ISBN 9780253040602 (hardcopy) (alk. paper)
0253040604
9780253040619 (paperback) (alk. paper)
0253040612