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Tunisia’s Women: Partners in Revolution
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Description | Women's presence in group struggles, revolutionary crowds and anti-colonial wars across the Middle East and North Africa has long shaped the historical development of the region. The importance of women in social change was recognized with the awarding of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize to Yemeni Arab Spring activist Tawakkol Karman. This chapter focuses on the participation of women in the Tunisian revolution as a rare moment of gender equality in which women's rights were secondary to the primordial concern for collective equality and freedom for all citizens. The gender politics of the former regime, its brand of 'state feminism', was not the sole target of popular opposition to the government. The way in which the state had historically 'gendered' its brand of secular modernism, an ideology that was used to gain and maintain power, was deconstructed in the gender-neutral crowds and subsequently came under scrutiny in the wake of the revolution. If the revolution aimed to ensure equality, justice and dignity for all Tunisians, including women, the post-revolutionary period began a transition process where national reconsolidation effectively reconsidered how the regime had 'gendered' society and politics. Valentine Moghadam's assertions about the gendered character of political and social change in the region could be noted here:Change in women's social positions has come about through a combination of long-term macrolevel processes-notably industrialization, urbanization, proletarianization, the demographic transition, globalization-and forms of collective actions that include national liberation movements, revolutions, and social movements. At the same time, such processes have been gendered, in that men and women have different roles, experiences, and outcomes, while concepts of masculinity and femininity have infused a range of political processes and policies. Book Name: Routledge Handbook of the Arab Spring |
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| Ending Page | 338 |
| Page Count | 16 |
| Starting Page | 323 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315763026-40 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2014-12-17 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Routledge Handbook of the Arab Spring Cultural Studies Africa Politics Social Gendered Political Processes Chapter Focuses Revolution Primordial Concern |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
