Foreword -- Introduction: Advancing women's rights in the Arab world -- PART I. WHAT THEY FIGHT FOR. 1. Barefoot feminist classes: a revelation of being, doing, and becoming -- 2. The labor strikes that catalyzed the revolution in Egypt -- 3. From a smear campaign to the Kuwaiti parliament: my resolve persists despite rumors -- 4. Palestinian queerness and the Orientalist paradigm -- 5. "With all my force . . .": men against domestic violence in Lebanon -- 6. "Ne touche pas mes enfants!": a woman's campaign against pedophilia in Morocco -- 7. Two nonviolence campaigns initiated by women in Syria -- 8. Refusing the backseat: women as drivers of the Yemeni uprisings -- PART II. WHAT THEYT BELIEVE. 9. "Women are complete, not complements": terminology in the writing of the new constitution of Tunisia -- 10. A patriotic Christian woman in the Syrian parliament -- 11. Iraqi women's agency: from political authoritarianism to sectarianism and Islamist militancy -- 12. Hidden voices, hidden agendas: Qubaysiat women's group in Syria -- 13. The Egyptian revolution and the feminist divide -- 14. Algerian feminists navigate authoritarianism -- 15. Failing the masses in Syria: Buthaina Shabaan and the public intellectual crisis -- 16. Time to seize the opportunity: a call for action from Sudan -- PART III. HOW THEY EXPRESS AGENCY. 17. Long before the Arab Spring: Arab women's cyberactivism through AWSA United -- 18. Aliaa Elmahdy, nude protest, & transnational feminist body politics -- 19. Sensing queer activism in Beirut: protest soundscapes as political dissent -- 20. On the contrary: negation as resistance and reimagining in the work of Bahia Shehab -- 21. Half Syrian Sufi blogger: faith and activism in the virtual public space -- 22. The light in her eyes: a woman is a school. Teach her and you teach a generation: an interview with filmmakers Julia Meltzer and Laura Nix -- 23. Writing Lebanese feminist history: Rose Ghurayyib's editorial letters in al- Raida journal from 1976 to 1985 -- 24. Um Sahar, the Adeni woman leader in al- Hirak southern independence movement in Yemen -- PART IV. HOW THEY USE SPACE TO MOBILIZE. 25. Marching with revolutionary women in Egypt: a participatory journal -- 26. Memories of martyrs: disappearance and women's claims against state violence in Libya -- 27. Mapping the Egyptian women's anti- sexual harassment campaigns -- 28. A village rises in the First Intifada: International Women's Day, March 8, 1988 -- 29. Revolutionary graffiti and Cairene women: performing agency through gaze aversion -- 30. Celebrating Women's Day in Baghdad, the city of men -- 31. Waiting for the revolution: women's perceptions from upper and lower rural Egypt -- 32. New media/new feminism(s): the Lebanese women's movement online and offline -- PART V. HOW THEY ORGANIZE. 33. Genesis of gender and women's studies at the University of Fez, Morocco -- 34. My revolution! -- 35. Women's political participation in Bahrain -- 36. Strategies of nonviolent resistance: Syrian women subverting dominant paradigms -- 37. Driving campaigns: Saudi women negotiating power in the public space -- 38. Reclaiming space(s): Kuwaiti women in the Karamat Watan protests -- 39. "The factory of the revolution": women's activism in the Syrian uprisings -- 40. Arab American women and the Arab Spring: an interview with Summer Nasser -- Acknowledgments -- About the editors -- About the contributors - Index.
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""Women Rising" explores feminist issues in and beyond the Arab Spring"--
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Women rising.
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Feminism-- Arab countries.
Women-- Arab countries-- Social conditions-- 21st century.