Title Women rising : in and beyond the Arab Spring / edited by Rita Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad

Published New York : New York University Press, [2020] ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 406 pages) : illustrations 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 Summary ""Women Rising" explores feminist issues in and beyond the Arab Spring"-- Provided by publisher Analysis Post-invasion Iraq Protesting Queer Politics Queer identity Rabitat al-Mar'a al-Iraqyah Representational spaces Revolutionary Egypt Rose Ghurayyib Saudi Arabian women Saudi Vision 2030 Sectarianism Sexual violence Social justice Social media Social rights Social tension Southern Peaceful Movement Street art Sudanese Politics Sufi tradition Syrian Christians Syrian Politics Syrian Reform Syrian Revolution Syrian Uprising Syrian blogosphere Syrian women Tahrir Square Protest Tahrir Square Technology and Gender roles The Egyptian Center for Women's Rights The Light in Her Eyes Transnational Feminist Body Politics Transnational feminism Tunisia Tunisian Constitution University of Fez Upper and Lower Rural Egypt Westernization Women and youth activists Women empowerment Women in Politics Women in Revolutions Women in Syria Women's Activism in Iraq Women's Agency in the Middle East Women's Liberation in Syria Women's Mosque Movement Women's Participation in Syria Women's Politics in Sudan Women's Politics in Syria Women's Politics in the Middle East Women's Representation Women's Rights in Syria Women's agency Women's rights Working class Yemen education memoir solidarity "peripheral" places Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 24, 2020) Subject Women -- Political activity -- Arab countries Women's rights -- Arab countries Feminism -- Arab countries Women -- Arab countries -- Social conditions -- 21st century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies. Feminism Women -- Political activity Women -- Social conditions Women's rights Arab countries Form Electronic book Author Stephan, Rita, editor. Charrad, M. (Mounira), editor. ISBN 9781479856961 1479856967

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