Bad Girls of the Arab World / / ed. by Rula Quawas, Nadia Yaqub.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Abdo, Diya,; Al-Atrash, Laila,; Al-Tal, Suhair,; Amireh, Amal,; Butler, Anne Marie E.,; Caillé, Patricia,; Fábos, Anita H.,; Ibrahim, Rawan W.,; Martin, Florence,; Najdi, Rima,; Quawas, Rula,; Shibli, Adania,; Yaqub, Nadia,
• HerausgeberIn: Quawas, Rula,; Yaqub, Nadia,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (239 p.)

Women’s transgressive behaviors and perspectives are challenging societal norms in the Arab world, giving rise to anxiety and public debate. Simultaneously, however, other Arab women are unwillingly finding themselves labeled “bad” as authority figures attempt to redirect scrutiny from serious socia...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• A Note on Transliteration and Translation
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• ONE Inciting Critique in the Feminist Classroom
• TWO “And Is It Impossible to Be Good Everywhere?” Love and Badness in America and the Arab World
• THREE Suspicious Bodies. Madame Bomba Performs against Death in Lebanon
• FOUR “Jihad Jane” as Good American Patriot and Bad Arab Girl: The Case of Nada Prouty after 9/11
• FIVE Paying for Her Father’s Sins Yasmin as a Daughter of Unknown Lineage
• SIX The Making of Bad Palestinian Mothers during the Second Intifada
• SEVEN “They Are Not Like Your Daughters or Mine” Spectacles of Bad Women from the Arab Spring
• EIGHT “Fuck Your Morals” The Body Activism of Amina Sboui
• NINE Syrian Bad Girl Samar Yazbek: Refusing Burial
• TEN Reel Bad Maghrebi Women
• ELEVEN New Bad Girls of Sudan Women Singers in the Sudanese Diaspora
• TWELVE Being a Revolutionary and Writerly Rebel
• Afterword
• Afterword MIRAL AL-TAHAWY TRANSLATED BY SAMIA HISSEN DOANY
• Contributors
• Index