Biography of a Revolution: The Feminist Roots of Human Rights in Egypt - Couverture souple

Sorbera, Lucia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520394755 ISBN 13 : 9780520394759

Editeur : University of California Press, 2025

Synopsis

It is not Egypt's 2011 revolution that opened a space for women's and feminist activism, but--as this book shows--the long history of women's activism that created the intellectual and political background for revolution. By centering the experiences and ideas of multiple generations of women activists and intellectuals, Lucia Sorbera traces the feminist genealogies of Egypt's nationalist, student, Marxist, labor, human rights, and democratic social movements. Biography of a Revolution gathers a series of interrelated intimate and relational stories, charting in vivid detail the entanglements between women's aspirations across a century of politics and friendships. This historical analysis innovatively deploys decolonial and indigenous feminist epistemologies, bringing women's, gender, and feminist history into the center of Egypt's political, social, and intellectual history. More than a decade after the 2013 military coup, women's intellectual and political activism remains crucial to keeping the embers of revolution aglow.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lucia Sorbera is Associate Professor and Chair of Arabic Language and Cultures at the University of Sydney.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520394755
• ISBN 13: 9780520394759
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 355
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible