Embodying geopolitics : generations of women's activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon /

"When women took to the streets during the mass protests of the Arab Spring, the subject of feminism in the Middle East and North Africa returned to the international spotlight. In the subsequent years, countless commentators treated the region's gender inequality as a consequence of funda...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pratt, Nicola Christine (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Women political activists > Middle East > History.
Women's rights > Political aspects > Middle East > History.
Women political activists > Egypt > History.
Women political activists > Jordan > History.
Women political activists > Lebanon > History.
Femmes activistes > Égypte > Histoire.
Femmes activistes > Jordanie > Histoire.
Femmes activistes > Liban > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern
Women political activists.
Egypt.
Jordan.
Lebanon.
Middle East.
Eletronic books.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : embodying geopolitics in the Middle East and North Africa
  • Female respectability and embodied national sovereignty
  • The 1967 defeat and its aftermath : the breakdown of the gender order and the expansion of women's activism
  • The gendered effects of political repression and violence in the 1970s and 1980s
  • The political economy of women's activism after the Cold War
  • Women's rights as geopolitical discourse : the struggle over geography in the post-Cold War period
  • The struggle over gender at the heart of the Arab uprisings
  • The gendered geopolitics of fear and counterrevolution.

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