Tchaicha / Tchaïcha / Arfaoui The Tunisian Women’s Rights Movement

From Nascent Activism to Influential Power-broking
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-71181-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 178 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies on Gender and Sexuality in Africa

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

This book examines Tunisian women’s lived experiences, as individuals and as a group, within a socio-historical framework that uncovers the enduring feminine footprint over centuries and eventually underpins and defines their most recent fight for gender equality in post-revolutionary Tunisia. The historic and current presentation of the 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.

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tchaicha, Jane D

Tchaïcha, Jane D

Arfaoui, Khedija

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

2. Historical Underpinnings of the Modern Tunisian Woman

3. Tunisia’s Independence and Women’s First Steps towards Emancipation

4. A New Kind of Women’s Movement Finds its Footing

5. Women Talking: Generational Voices at the Dawn of the New Millennium

6. Socio-political Implosion, Revolutionary Euphoria, and Women’s Engagement

7. Women Shape the New Constitution

8. Conclusion—Constraints and Future Steps

Über Autor(innen)

Jane D. Tchaicha is an Associate Professor at Bentley College, USA.

Khédija Arfaoui is an independent scholar based in Tunisia.