Embodying Geopolitics
Embodying Geopolitics 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.…
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Embodying Geopolitics
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 so doing, they overlooked the specifically political nature of these women's activism. In the subsequent years, countless commentators treated the region's gender inequality as a consequence of fundamentally cultural or religious problems.
Weaving together 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.