As the 2011 uprisings in North Africa reverberated across the Middle East, a diverse cross section of women and girls publicly disputed gender and sexual norms in novel, unauthorized, and often shocking ways. In a series of case studies ranging from Tunisia's 14 January Revolution to the Taksim Gezi Park protests in Istanbul, the contributors to Freedom without Permission reveal the centrality of the intersections between body, gender, sexuality, and space to these groundbreaking events. Essays include discussions of the blogs written by young women in Egypt, the Women2Drive campaign in Saudi Arabia, the reintegration of women into the public sphere in Yemen, the sexualization of female protesters encamped at Bahrain's Pearl Roundabout, and the embodied, performative, and artistic spaces of Morocco's 20 February Movement. Conceiving of revolution as affective, embodied, spatialized, and aesthetic forms of upheaval and transgression, the contributors show how women activists imagined, inhabited, and deployed new spatial arrangements that undermined the public-private divisions of spaces, bodies, and social relations, continuously transforming them through symbolic and embodied transgressions.
Contributors. Lamia Benyoussef, Susanne Dahlgren, Karina Eileraas, Susana Galan, Banu Gökariksel, Frances S. Hasso, Sonali Pahwa, Zakia Salime
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Politics in the Digital Boudoir: Sentimentality and the Transformation of Civil Debate in Egyptian Women’s Blogs
- 2. Gender and the Fractured Mythscapes of National Identity in Revolutionary Tunisia
- 3. Making Intimate “Civilpolitics” in Southern Yemen
- 4. The Sect-Sex-Police Nexus and Politics in Bahrain’s Pearl Revolution
- 5. “The Women Are Coming”: Gender, Space, and the Politics of Inauguration
- 6. Cautious Enactments: Interstitial Spaces of Gender Politics in Saudi Arabia
- 7. Revolution Undressed: The Politics of Rage and Aesthetics in Aliaa Elmahdy’s Body Activism
- 8. Intimate Politics of Protest: Gendering Embodiments and Redefining Spaces in Istanbul’s Taksim Gezi Park and the Arab Revolutions
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
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