Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWomen of the Midan sheds new light on what really happened on the streets of Cairo during the Egyptian Uprising, from the women's perspective. This study would be of much interest to students and scholars of Middle East Studies, the Social Sciences, and Feminist and Cultural Studies.
* Arab Studies Quarterly *
Women of the Midan offers one a rich access to both an unsilenced archive and an embodied language that resist being written out of history. The book is an absolute must for everyone who wants to understand what it means to create, remember, and narrate embodied/ gendered histories of revolution.
* Religious Studies Review *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Recentering Gender in Revolution: Timeline 2011 to 2015
Introduction
1. Telling the Stories of Revolutionary Women
2. Gender and Corporeality in Egypt: A History
3. Gender, Class and Revolt in Neoliberal Cairo
4. The Lived Experience of Women's Struggle
5. Bodies That Protest
6. The Specter of Gender Violence
7. Taking Resistance Virtually: Corporeality and Sexual Taboos
Works Cited
Index
