Tunisian Women,s Rights Movement

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Tunisian Women,s Rights Movement

From Nascent Activism to Influential Power-broking

Regional / International studies Gender studies: women and girls Feminism and feminist theory Sociology Comparative politics Middle Eastern history African history

Authors: Jane D Tchaicha, Khedija Arfaoui

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Collection: Routledge Studies on Gender and Sexuality in Africa

Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 14th July 2017

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 3 Mb

ISBN: 9781351711814


Introduction

Tunisian women have received significant attention for their active participation in preserving and extending women’s rights since 2011. However, their activism and latest achievements should be considered not a recent phenomenon but rather part and parcel of a distinctive local history that has included women as agents of change.

Book Overview

This book examines Tunisian women’s lived experiences, as individuals and as a group, within a sociohistorical framework that uncovers the enduring feminine footprint over centuries and eventually underpins and defines their most recent fight for gender equality in postrevolutionary Tunisia. The historic and current presentation of Tunisian women’s public and civic engagement distinguishes between different types of women’s objectives in order to examine women’s activism holistically as it evolved in the local context.

Target Audience

The Tunisian Women’s Rights Movement will be of interest to students and scholars of Tunisia, North African, and Middle East Studies and gender in the Arab world.

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