Sherine Hafez, "Women of the Midan: The Untold Stories of Egypt's Revolutionaries "
English | ISBN: 0253040604 | 2019 | 264 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
English | ISBN: 0253040604 | 2019 | 264 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
In Women of the Midan, Sherine Hafez demonstrates how women were a central part of revolutionary process of the Arab Spring. Women not only protested in the streets of Cairo, they demanded democracy, social justice, and renegotiation of a variety of sociocultural structures that repressed and disciplined them. Women's resistance to state control, Islamism, neoliberal market changes, the military establishment, and patriarchal systems forged new paths of dissent and transformation. Through firsthand accounts of women who participated in the revolution, Hafez illustrates how the gendered body signifies collective action and the revolutionary narrative.