Research Catalog

Title

Women in Revolutionary Egypt : gender and the new geographics of identity / Shereen Abouelnaga.

Author

Abouelnaga, Shereen

Publication

Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2016.

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Details

Description

x, 150 pages; 24 cm

Summary

The 25 January 2011 uprising and the unprecedented dissent and discord to which it gave rise shattered the notion of homogeneity that had characterized state representations of Egypt and Egyptians since 1952. It allowed for the eruption of identities along multiple lines, including class, ideology, culture, and religion, long suppressed by state control. Concomitantly a profusion of women's voices arose to further challenge the state-managed feminism that had sought to define and carefully circumscribe women's social and civic roles in Egypt. Women in Revolutionary Egypt takes the uprising as the point of departure for an exploration of how gender in post-Mubarak Egypt came to be rethought, reimagined, and contested. It examines key areas of tension between national and gender identities, including gender empowerment through art and literature, particularly graffiti and poetry, the disciplining of the body, and the politics of history and memory. Shereen Abouelnaga argues that this new cartography of women's struggle has to be read in a context that takes into consideration the micropolitics of everyday life as well as the larger processes that work to separate the personal from the political. She shows how a new generation of women is resisting, both discursively and visually, the notion of a fixed or 'authentic' notion of Egyptian womanhood in spite of prevailing social structures and in face of all gendered politics of imagined nation.

Alternative Title

Gender and the new geographics of identity

Subject

• Arab Spring (2010- )
• Protests (Egypt : 2011- )
• 2000-2099
• Women > Political activity > Egypt
• Women > Egypt > Social conditions > 21st century
• Arab Spring, 2010-
• Gender mainstreaming > Egypt
• Gender identity in literature
• Gender identity in art
• Feminism > Egypt
• Feminism
• Gender mainstreaming
• Women > Political activity
• Women > Social conditions
• Egypt > History > Protests, 2011-
• Egypt

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Is there gender in this revolution? -- Gender and the new text -- The new subversive poetic voices -- Multiple patriarchies and one body -- The politics of memory.

Call Number

JFE 17-2413

ISBN

• 9789774167478
• 9774167473

LCCN

2016285100

OCLC

950249015

Author

Abouelnaga, Shereen, author.

Title

Women in Revolutionary Egypt : gender and the new geographics of identity / Shereen Abouelnaga.

Publisher

Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Research Call Number

JFE 17-2413