Title The Tunisian women's rights movement : from nascent activism to influential power-broking / Jame D. Tchaïcha and khedija Arfaoui

Published London : Routledge, 2017 ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (162 pages) : illustrations Series Routledge studies on gender and sexuality in Africa ; 1 Routledge studies on gender and sexuality in Africa. Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; Table of abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Foreword; 1 Introduction and overview; A new government and a new vision for the Tunisian Women's Rights Movement; Significance and timeliness of the subject; Transnational co-authorship; Note to readers; 2 Historical underpinnings of the modern Tunisian woman; Geography, antiquity, and women; Women of the early modern era in Ottoman Tunisia; End of Ottoman rule, French colonialism, and the rise of nationalism Transitioning into the 20th century and the start of "organized" women's movementsNationalism, women, and growing sentiment for independence; Women taking action; The female renegades; Women's civic and political engagement; Feminizing the press; Summary; 3 Tunisia's independence and women's first step towards emancipation; The CSP -- changes and challenges for Tunisian society; More legal reforms; The national development project and women; The state feminism debate; The National Union of Tunisian Women (UNFT) -- entity of the State; A changing attitude 4 A new kind of women's movement finds its footingClub Tahar Haddad -- in a different voice; A shifting sociopolitical and economic landscape -- a new direction for women?; State agencies and women's autonomous organizations in competition; Inheritance law -- women's greatest legal hurdle; Locating common ground to advance women's rights; 5 Women talking: generational voices at the dawn of the new millennium; Early signs of malaise for the feminist movement; Veiling -- mixed meanings amid growing disenchantment; The CSP in theory and practice -- 50 years later; Unfinished business A new decade, a new millennium, and growing disillusionment6 Sociopolitical implosion, revolutionary euphoria, and women's engagement; The immediate aftermath of January 14; Searching for political stability; Ben Ali is gone, and civil society flourishes; ANC election preparation; ANC election results -- Al-Nahdha prevails; More freedom, more choices, more challenges for women; Tunisian women take a stand; Moving forward; 7 Women shape the new Constitution; The Constitution-writing process; Word choice matters; Women take a stand; January 2014 -- a watershed moment for women's rights Reality checkThe final constitutional vote; 8 Conclusion -- constraints and future steps; Putting constitutional context into practice; LGBT rights denied; Socioeconomic discrimination; Ongoing gender-based violence; The lingering dilemma of inheritance rights?; Concluding remarks; Appendix A Female members of the National Constituent Assembly (ANC); Appendix B Female Parliamentarians elected in 2014 by political party; Appendix C Description of political parties in Tunisia (2011-2014); Bibliography; Index Summary "Tunisian women have received significant attention for their active participation in preserving and extending women's rights since 2011. However, their activism and latest achievements should be considifered not a recent phenomenon but rather part and parcel of a distinctive local history that has included women as agents of change. This book examines Tunisian women's lived experiences, as individuals and as a group, within a sociohistorical framework that uncovers the enduring feminine footprint over centuries and eventually undiferpins and defines their most recent fight for gendifer equality in postrevolutionary Tunisia. The historic and current presentation of Tunisian women's public and civic engagement distinguishes between different types of women's objectives in ordifer to examine women's activism holistically as it evolved in the local context. The Tunisian Women's Rights Movement will be of interest to students and scholars of Tunisia, North African, and Middle East Studies and gendifer in the Arab world."--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index. 5880 Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 13, 2017) 910 cpp5014 Notes Print version record Subject Women -- Political activity -- Tunisia -- History Women -- Tunisia -- Social conditions -- History Political participation -- Tunisia -- History Feminism -- Tunisia -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Feminism Political participation Women -- Political activity Women -- Social conditions Tunisia Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book Author Arfaoui, Khédija, author. ISBN 9781351711821 1351711822 9781351711814 1351711814 9781351711807 1351711806 9781315177915 1315177919

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