Contemporary Arab Women Revolutionaries: Radical Traditions offers a groundbreaking interdisciplinary examination of Arab women's radical modes of resistance from the 1970s to the present. Spanning literary, visual, political, social, digital, and translational practices, the volume reveals how women across the Arab world and its diasporas have established and transformed cultural, artistic, and spiritual traditions into powerful tools for confronting patriarchal, colonial, and capitalist structures.
Bringing together leading scholars in literature, film, visual culture, oral history, digital activism, and translation, the collection traces feminist interventions across key themes, including liberation and human rights, the disruption of social and gender norms, counter-memory as resistance, feminist resistance in conflict zones, and digital and translational activism. From Syrian Sufi-inflected poetics and Lebanese women combatants to Palestinian filmmakers, Sahrawi activists, and emerging dissident voices across Saudi Arabia, the Maghreb, Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq, the chapters illuminate the creative, strategic, and often paradoxical ways women contest and reconfigure power.
Rich in case studies, multimodal analysis, and decolonial feminist theory, this landmark volume offers an indispensable framework for understanding the depth, complexity, and transnational reach of contemporary Arab feminist praxis.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: The Unfinished Revolution, Raad Khair Allah; PART I: The Fight for Liberation and Human Rights; Nawal El Saadawi: Rewriting the Female Body and Exposing Female Genital Mutilation's Role in Reinforcing Patriarchy, Khaoula Jaoudi; Huda Naamani: Feminism, Poetry, and Ecstatic, Collective Liberation, miriam cooke; A Woman's Revolution: Palestinian Female Filmmakers and the Cinema of Liberation, Rebecca Ruth Gould; Reading Baghdad's Female-Depicting Murals: A Critical Feminist and Intermedial Approach, Zeena Faulk and Ann Peeters; Endogamy, Exogamy, and Patrilineal Citizenship: Implications for Gendered Political Violence, Ibtihal Rida Mahmood; PART II: Disrupting Social and Gender Norms; Co-opting Meanings of Gendered Expectations: How Young Jordanian Women Disrupt the Country's Gendered Status Quo from Within, Ivana Cosmano; Troubling Gender in Contemporary Saudi Women's Fiction: Ambiguity, Embodiment, and Resistance, Ibrahim Alfraih; Waiting for the Full Moon: The Representation of Nudity and Sexuality as a Radical Tradition in Contemporary Syrian Female Art, Fassih Keiso; PART III: Counter-Memory as Resistance; Performing Identity in Isabella Hammad's Enter Ghost, Elena Violaris; Filmic Fabulation and the Rite of Return to the Archive, Mahasen Nasser-Eldin; Trauma as an Adversarial Strategy in Abulhawa's The Blue Between Sky and Water, Wael Salam; "We women are armed against calamity from childhood on": Re-remembering Moroccan Women's Resistance as a Model for Female Agency, Amirah Mohiddin; Radical Resistance in Badriah Albeshr's Novels Hend and the Soldiers and Thursday's Visitors, Rawan Althunyan; PART IV: Feminist Resistance in Conflict Zones; Women's Republic, How War Can Change Social Balance in the Desert: The Saharawi Case, Caterina Maggi; Beyond the Gun: The Gendered Paradox of Female Militancy in the Lebanese Civil War, Wassim Mroueh; Refuse, Resist, Remain: The Radical Continuum of Palestinian Women's Political Agency, Erin Brady; PART V: Feminist Translation and Digital Resistance; Arab Women Translators as Agents of Change, Ibtihal Rida Mahmood; Facing Off with the Liberators through the Blogosphere: Riverbend's Baghdad Burning and Faiza's A Family in Baghdad, Zeena Faulk; The Digital Unveiling: Radical Feminist Revolt and Activism in Egypt, Shereen H. Shaw and Ghada Nakhla
