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Informationen zum Autor Frances S. Hasso and Zakia Salime, editors Klappentext As the 2011 uprisings in North Africa reverberated across the Middle East, a diverse cross section of women and girls publicly disputed gender and sexual norms in novel, unauthorized, and often shocking ways. In a series of case studies ranging from Tunisia's 14 January Revolution to the Taksim Gezi Park protests in Istanbul, the contributors to Freedom without Permission reveal the centrality of the intersections between body, gender, sexuality, and space to these groundbreaking events. Essays include discussions of the blogs written by young women in Egypt, the Women2Drive campaign in Saudi Arabia, the reintegration of women into the public sphere in Yemen, the sexualization of female protesters encamped at Bahrain's Pearl Roundabout, and the embodied, performative, and artistic spaces of Morocco's 20 February Movement. Conceiving of revolution as affective, embodied, spatialized, and aesthetic forms of upheaval and transgression, the contributors show how women activists imagined, inhabited, and deployed new spatial arrangements that undermined the public-private divisions of spaces, bodies, and social relations, continuously transforming them through symbolic and embodied transgressions. Contributors. Lamia Benyoussef, Susanne Dahlgren, Karina Eileraas, Susana Galan, Banu Gökariksel, Frances S. Hasso, Sonali Pahwa, Zakia Salime 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...
