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

Maha El Said (Ed.)

ISBN 10: 178360283X / ISBN 13: 9781783602834

Published by Zed Books Ltd, 2015

About this Item

How political turmoil and dissent are re-shaping gender roles in the Arab world. Editor(s): El Said, Maha; Meari, Lena; Pratt, Nicola. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; HBTV; JFSJ1; JPWQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 448. . 2015. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rethinking Gender in Revolutions and Resistance: Lessons from the Arab World
• Publisher: Zed Books Ltd
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178360283X
• ISBN 13: 9781783602834
• Binding: Hardcover
• 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.