Women Rising : : In and Beyond the Arab Spring / / ed. by Rita Stephan, Mounira M. Charrad.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
• MitwirkendeR: Abirafeh, Lina,; Al-Ali, Nadje,; Alawadhi, Aseel,; Ali Kandar, Aminah,; Ali, Zahra,; Alsaleh, Asaad,; Amireh, Amal,; Anani, Ghida,; Badran, Margot,; Bardhan, Soumia,; Buscemi, Emanuela,; Cerruti, Michela,; Chaer, Nisrine,; Charrad, Mounira M.,; Davis, Kevin A.,; Eileraas Karakuş, Karina,; Ezzat Elkholy, Maha,; Feather, Ginger,; Foss, Karen A.,; Gamie, Samaa,; Hunt, Theresa,; Hyndman-Rizk, Nelia,; Jamal, Manal A.,; Joseph, Suad,; Kahf, Mohja,; Kamel, Lorenzo,; Khoury, Nicole,; Marnicio, Ariana,; Naber, Nadine,; Osman Ibnouf, Fatma,; Quawas, Rula,; Regan Wills, Emily,; Saadeh, Maria,; Sadiqi, Fatima,; Saleh, Layla,; Sayed, Sana,; Shalaby, Marwa,; Stephan, Rita,; Taha, Nurulsyahirah,; Tsujigami, Namie,; Wahba, Dina,; Young, Andy,; Youssef, Maro,; Zarrugh, Amina,; al-Natour, Manal,
• HerausgeberIn: Charrad, Mounira M.,; Stephan, Rita,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 36 black and white illustrations

Groundbreaking essays by female activists and scholars documenting women’s resistance before, during, and after the Arab SpringImages of women protesting in the Arab Spring, from Tahrir Square to the streets of Tunisia and Syria, have become emblematic of the political upheaval sweeping the Middle East and North Africa. In Women Rising, Rita Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad bring together a provocative group of scholars, activists, artists, and more, highlighting the first-hand experiences of these remarkable women. In this relevant and timely volume, Stephan and Charrad paint a picture of women’s political resistance in sixteen countries before, during, and since the Arab Spring protests first began in 2011. Contributors provide insight into a diverse range of perspectives across the entire movement, focusing on often-marginalized voices, including rural women, housewives, students, and artists. Women Rising offers an on-the-ground understanding of an important twenty-first century movement, telling the story of Arab women’s activism.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction Advancing Women’s Rights in the Arab World -- Part I. What They Fight For -- 1. Barefoot Feminist Classes: A Revelation of Being, Doing, and Becoming -- 2. The Labor Strikes That Catalyzed the Revolution in Egypt -- 3. From a Smear Campaign to the Kuwaiti Parliament: My Resolve Persists Despite Rumors -- 4. Palestinian Queerness and the Orientalist Paradigm -- 5. “With All My Force . . .”: Men against Domestic Violence in Lebanon -- 6. “Ne Touche Pas Mes Enfants!”: A Woman’s Campaign against Pedophilia in Morocco -- 7. Two Nonviolence Campaigns Initiated by Women in Syria -- 8. Refusing the Backseat: Women as Drivers of the Yemeni Uprisings -- Part II What They Believe -- 9. “Women Are Complete, Not Complements”: Terminology in the Writing of the New Constitution of Tunisia -- 10. A Patriotic Christian Woman in the Syrian Parliament -- 11. Iraqi Women’s Agency: From Political Authoritarianism to Sectarianism and Islamist Militancy -- 12. Hidden Voices, Hidden Agendas: Qubaysiat Women’s Group in Syria -- 13. The Egyptian Revolution and the Feminist Divide -- 14. Algerian Feminists Navigate Authoritarianism -- 15. Failing the Masses in Syria: Buthaina Shabaan and the Public Intellectual Crisis -- 16. Time to Seize the Opportunity: A Call for Action from Sudan -- Part III. How They Express Agency -- 17. Long before the Arab Spring: Arab Women’s Cyberactivism through AWSA United -- 18. Aliaa Elmahdy, Nude Protest, & Transnational Feminist Body Politics -- 19. Sensing Queer Activism in Beirut: Protest Soundscapes as Political Dissent -- 20. On the Contrary: Negation as Resistance and Reimagining in the Work of Bahia Shehab -- 21. Half Syrian Sufi Blogger: Faith and Activism in the Virtual Public Space -- 22. The Light in Her Eyes: A Woman Is a School. Teach Her and You Teach a Generation: An Interview with Filmmakers Julia Meltzer and Laura Nix -- 23. Writing Lebanese Feminist History: Rose Ghurayyib’s Editorial Letters in Al- Raida Journal from 1976 to 1985 -- 24. Um Sahar, the Adeni Woman Leader in al- Hirak Southern Independence Movement in Yemen -- Part IV. How They Use Space to Mobilize -- 25. Marching with Revolutionary Women in Egypt: A Participatory Journal -- 26. Memories of Martyrs: Disappearance and Women’s Claims against State Violence in Libya -- 27. Mapping the Egyptian Women’s Anti– Sexual Harassment Campaigns -- 28. A Village Rises in the First Intifada: International Women’s Day, March 8, 1988 -- 29. Revolutionary Graffiti and Cairene Women: Performing Agency through Gaze Aversion -- 30. Celebrating Women’s Day in Baghdad, the City of Men -- 31. Waiting for the Revolution: Women’s Perceptions from Upper and Lower Rural Egypt -- 32. New Media/New Feminism(s): The Lebanese Women’s Movement Online and Offline -- Part V. How They Organize -- 33. Genesis of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Fez, Morocco -- 34. My Revolution! -- 35. Women’s Political Participation in Bahrain -- 36. Strategies of Nonviolent Resistance: Syrian Women Subverting Dominant Paradigms -- 37. Driving Campaigns: Saudi Women Negotiating Power in the Public Space -- 38. Reclaiming Space(s): Kuwaiti Women in the Karamat Watan Protests -- 39. “The Factory of the Revolution”: Women’s Activism in the Syrian Uprisings -- 40. Arab American Women and the Arab Spring: An Interview with Summer Nasser -- Acknowledgments -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors -- Index