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Title Freedom without permission : bodies and space in the Arab revolutions / Frances S. Hasso and Zakia Salime, editors
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2016
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Description 1 online resource (x, 294 pages) : illustrations
Series Online access with subscription: Duke University Press
Contents Introduction / Frances S. Hasso and Zakia Salime -- Politics in the digital boudoir : sentimentality and the transformation of civil debate in Egyptian women's blogs / Sonali Pahwa -- Gender and the fractured mythscapes of national identity in revolutionary Tunisia / Lamia Benyoussef -- Making intimate "civilpolitics" in southern Yemen / Susanne Dahlgren -- The sect-sex-police nexus and politics in Bahrain's Pearl Revolution / Frances S. Hasso -- "The women are coming" : gender, space, and the politics of inauguration / Zakia Salime -- "Trying to find their way" : interstitial gender politics in Saudi Arabia / Susana Galán -- Revolution undressed : the politics of rage and aesthetics in Aliaa Elmahdy's body activism / Karina Eileraas -- Intimate politics of protest : gendering embodiments and redefining spaces in Istanbul's Taksim Gezi Park and the Arab revolutions / Banu Gökarıksel
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Sex role -- Arab countries -- History -- 21st century
Arab Spring, 2010-
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Sex role
Arabischer Frühling
Geschlechterrolle
Leiblichkeit
Arab countries
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Hasso, Frances Susan, editor.
Salime, Zakia, editor.
ISBN 9780822373728
0822373726