Women Rising

In and Beyond the Arab Spring

Women Rising
Rita Stephan, Mounira M Charrad
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9 Jun 2020 US
9781479801046
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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.
This exciting and unique collection of essays by Arab activists, politicians, scholars, and others is remarkable in its breadth, covering a wide range of Arab countries and contexts to explore the activism of women before, during and after the Arab Spring uprisings. This important and impressive contribution to the study of women's activism in the region reveals distinctive features of Arab women's struggles and the national and local origins of their protests. It shows how women, through their very presence in protests, transformed the relationship of women to public space. Women were emboldened through their organizations; they increased political representation; and made legislative changes. But they also asserted their creative agency through literature, film, street art, the photographic lens, and many other forms of expression. -- Aili Mari Tripp, author of Seeking Legitimacy: Why Arab Autocracies Adopt Women's RightsA rich collection that records the life and efforts of women during a critical point of history for Arab women as they struggle against odds that often seem insurmountable. -- Amira Sonbol, author of The New Mamluks: Egyptian Society and Modern FeudalismIn Women Rising, activists, scholars, politicians, and artists tell a compelling story of women's mobilization before, during, and after the Arab uprising of 2011. Well written and analytically powerful, these essays show us the important role women have played in the struggle for democracy, social justice, and women's rights across the diverse communities in the region. Pushing the boundaries of the study of feminist resistance, this book will inspire students, scholars, and activists. -- Verta Taylor, author of Rock-a-by Baby: Feminism, Self-Help, and Postpartum Depression
Rita Stephan is a Research Fellow at The Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies at North Carolina State University and the Director of the Middle East Partnership Initiative at the U.S. Department of State. She is the co-editor of In Line with the Divine: The Struggle for Gender Equality in Lebanon and the author of several publications on Lebanese women's movement, social movements, social networks, and Arab-Americans.Mounira Charrad is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas, Austin and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Baker Institute, Rice University. She is author of the award-winning book, States and Women's Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco, as well as the editor or co-editor of Patrimonial Power in the Modern World, Patrimonial Capitalism and Empire, Women's Agency: Silences and Voices, and Femmes, Culture et Societe au Maghreb.
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ISBN-13: 9781479801046
Published: 9 Jun 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: New York University Press
Publisher: New York University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 432

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