Rethinking Gender in Revolutions and Resistance : Lessons from the Arab World

El Said, Maha (EDT); Meari, Lena (EDT); Pratt, Nicola (EDT)

ISBN 10: 1783602821 / ISBN 13: 9781783602827

Published by Zed Books, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rethinking Gender in Revolutions and Resistance : Lessons from the Arab World
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783602821
• ISBN 13: 9781783602827
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Ever since the uprisings that swept the Arab world, the role of Arab women in political transformations received unprecedented media attention. The copious commentary, however, has yet to result in any serious study of the gender dynamics of political upheaval.

Rethinking Gender in Revolutions and Resistance is the first book to analyse the interplay between moments of sociopolitical transformation, emerging subjectivities and the different modes of women's agency in forging new gender norms in the Arab world. Written by scholars and activists from the countries affected, including Palestine, Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, this is an important addition to Middle Eastern gender studies.

About the Author

Lena Meari is Assistant Professor at Birzeit University, Palestine, and Acting Director of their Institute of Women Studies. Previously she was a postdoctoral research at the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University, U.S. She specializes in the geopolitics of knowledge production, decolonized methodologies, colonial structures and colonial relations, and completed her PhD at the University of California, Davis, U.S. She has published in various peer-reviewed journals and edited books.