Women, Culture, and the January 2011 Egyptian Revolution

Buch | Hardcover

138 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-66873-7 (ISBN)

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This book is timely and much needed to shed light on the role of Egyptian women in the past and present revolutionary processes. The story of the 2011 January Revolution is still unfolding as the Egyptian people continue to struggle for freedom, dignity and social justice. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal for Cultural Research.

This book comes at a time when the Egyptian nation is facing deep divisions about the notion and definition of ‘revolution’. The articles here aim to look at the 2011 Egyptian Revolution and the central role of women within it from a critical perspective. Our objective is not to glorify the revolution or inflate the role of Egyptian women within its parameters, but to analyse and critique both the achievements and setbacks of this revolution and the contributions of various strata of women to the revolutionary process, which is still unfolding. Women’s participation is part of a broader picture and needs to be considered as an essential element of the ongoing struggle for freedom and social justice, not in isolation of it. The reader will soon realise that the authors in this book, perhaps, agree on one profound aspect of the 2011 Revolution: the struggle is ongoing, and the revolutionary process is still being shaped and recreated. The story of the Egyptian Revolution still resists any kind of closure despite the ascendance of the military regime once again to power. The years to come will no doubt witness an expansion of the political and cultural archive of the Egyptian and Arab uprisings, accompanied by much academic work on their impact and significance. Women’s roles and contributions need to occupy a central position in these academic analyses. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal for Cultural Research.

Dalia Said Mostafa is a Lecturer in Arabic and Comparative Literature at the University of Manchester. Her forthcoming book is entitled The Egyptian Military in Popular Culture: Context and Critique (Palgrave Pivot). She has published studies in both Arabic and English on contemporary Arabic fiction, Arab cinema, and popular culture in Egypt.

Introduction: Egyptian women, revolution, and protest culture 1. Action, imagination, institution, natality, revolution 2. Egypt’s revolution, our revolution: revolutionary women and the transnational avant-garde 3. Inserting women’s rights in the Egyptian constitution: personal reflections 4. Egyptian women, revolution and the making of a visual public sphere 5. A multimodal analysis of selected Cairokee songs of the Egyptian revolution and their representation of women 6. Gender and Tahrir Square: contesting the state and imagining a new nation 7. To write/to revolt: Egyptian women novelists writing the revolution 8. ‘Giving memory a future’: women, writing, revolution

Erscheinungsdatum	24.05.2016
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-138-66873-7 / 1138668737
ISBN-13	978-1-138-66873-7 / 9781138668737
Zustand	Neuware