Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women's Activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon

by Nicola Pratt

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520281756
• ISBN13: 9780520281752
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.1"