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Freedom Without Permission - Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Frances S. Hasso is Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Sociology at Duke University and the author of Resistance, Repression, and Gender Politics in Occupied Palestine and Jordan and Consuming Desires: Family Crisis and the State in the Middle East. Zakia Salime is Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University and the author of Between Feminism and Islam: Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco. Klappentext In a series of case studies focusing on the Arab spring revolutions, the contributors to Freedom without Permission reveal the centrality of the intersections between body, gender, and space to the revolutions, showing how a diverse group of women and girls publicly disputed gender and sexual norms. Zusammenfassung In a series of case studies focusing on the Arab spring revolutions! the contributors to Freedom without Permission reveal the centrality of the intersections between body! gender! and space to the revolutions! showing how a diverse group of women and girls publicly disputed gender and sexual norms. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments  ix Introduction / Frances S. Hasso and Zakia Salime  1 1. Politics in the Digital Boudoir: Sentimentality and the Transformation of Civil Debate in Egyptian Women's Blogs / Sonali Pahwa  25 2. Gender and the Fractured Mythscapes of National Identity in Revolutionary Tunisia / Lamia Benyoussef  51 3. Making Intimate "Civilpolitics" in Southern Yemen / Susanne Dahlgren  80 4. The Sect-Sex-Police Nexus and Politics in Bahrain's Pearl Revolution / Frances S. Hasso  105 5. "The Women Are Coming": Gender, Space, and the Politics of Inauguration / Zakia Salime  138 6. Cautious Enactments: Interstitial Spaces of Gender Politics in Saudia Arabia / Susana Galán  166 7. Revolution Undressed: The Politics of Rage and Aesthetics in Aliaa Elmahdy's Body Activism / Karina Eileraas  196 8. Intimate Politics of Protest: Gendering Embodiments and Redefining Spaces in Istanbul's Taksim Gezi Park and the Arab Revolutions / Banu Gökariksel  221 Bibliography  259 Contributors  279 Index  283...

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Authors Frances S. (EDT)/ Salime Hasso, Frances S. Salime Hasso, Frances Salime Hasso
Assisted by Frances Hasso (Editor), Frances S. Hasso (Editor), Zakia Salime (Editor), Zakia S. Salime (Editor)
Publisher Duke University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.10.2016
 
EAN 9780822362210
ISBN 978-0-8223-6221-0
No. of pages 304
Subjects Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

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