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Women of the Midan : the untold stories of Egypt's revolutionaries / Sherine Hafez.

Author/creator Hafez, Sherine author.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019]
Description1 online resource (xliv, 216 pages).
Supplemental Content ProQuest Ebook Central
Subject(s)
Series Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa. ^A1154359
Contents Recentering Gender in Revolution : Timeline 2011 to 2015 -- Telling the Stories of Revolutionary Women -- Gender and Corporeality in Egypt : A History -- Gender, Class, and Revolt in Neoliberal Cairo -- The Lived Experience of Women's Struggle -- Bodies That Protest -- The Specter of Gender Violence -- Taking Resistance Virtually : Corporeality and Sexual Taboos.
Abstract Though the testimonies of Egyptian women who participated in the revolution, Women of the Midan foregrounds the role of the gendered body as an agent of collective action and transformation--a practice and process that challenges traditional notions of how women are represented in the Middle East.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionOnline resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 18, 2019).
Issued in other formPrint version: Hafez, Sherine. Women of the Midan. Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2019 9780253040602
Genre/formElectronic books.
Genre/formBiographies.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2019016643
ISBN9780253040640 (electronic book)
ISBN0253040647 (electronic book)
ISBN9780253040626 (electronic book)
ISBN0253040620 (electronic book)
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ISBN(paperback)
Stock number22573/ctvfbwm7q JSTOR

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