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Title
Embodying geopolitics
Type
Text
Monograph
Multimedia
Contribution
Pratt, Nicola Christine (Author)
Subject
Women political activists--Middle East--History (LCSH)
Women's rights--Political aspects--Middle East--History (LCSH)
Women political activists--Egypt--History (LCSH)
Women political activists--Jordan--History (LCSH)
Women political activists--Lebanon--History (LCSH)
Language
English
Classification
LCC: HQ1236.5.M628 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
DDC: 305.420956 full (Assigner: dlc)(Source: 23)
Supplementary Content
bibliography
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Content
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Summary
"When women took to the streets during the mass protests of the Arab Spring, the subject of feminism in the Middle East and North Africa returned to the international spotlight. In the subsequent years, countless commentators treated the region's gender inequality as a consequence of fundamentally cultural or religious problems. In so doing, they overlooked the specifically political nature of these women's activism. Moving beyond such culturalist accounts, this book turns to the relations of power in regional and international politics to understand women's struggles for their rights. Based on over a hundred extensive personal narratives from women of different generations in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon, Nicola Pratt traces women's activism from national independence through to the Arab uprisings, arguing that activist women are critical geopolitical actors. Weaving together these personal accounts with the ongoing legacies of colonialism, Embodying Geopolitics demonstrates how the production and regulation of gender is integrally bound up with the exercise and organization of geopolitical power, with consequences for women's activism and its effects"-- Provided by publisher.
Table Of Contents
Introduction : embodying geopolitics in the Middle East and North Africa
Female respectability and embodied national sovereignty
The 1967 defeat and its aftermath : the breakdown of the gender order and the expansion of women's activism
The gendered effects of political repression and violence in the 1970s and 1980s
The political economy of women's activism after the Cold War
Women's rights as geopolitical discourse : the struggle over geography in the post-Cold War period
The struggle over gender at the heart of the Arab uprisings
The gendered geopolitics of fear and counterrevolution.
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Pratt, Nicola Christine Embodying geopolitics
Admin Metadata
Generation Process: DLC marc2bibframe2 v2.5.0
Status: changed
Encoding Level: full
Identified By: bf:Local, 21475285
Change Date: 2021-06-28T14:39:12
Creation Date: 2020-03-03
Description Language: English
Description Modifier: United States, Library of Congress
Description Authentication: Program for Cooperative Cataloging
Assigner: United States, Library of Congress

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Oakland, California: University of California Press; [2020]

Embodying geopoliticsgenerations of women's activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon () Oakland, California: University of California Press; [2020]

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Pratt, Nicola Christine Embodying geopolitics

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