| The Tunisian Women's Rights Movement: From Nascent Activism to Influential Power-broking Contributor(s): Tchaïcha, Jane D. (Author), Arfaoui, Khedija (Author) |
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ISBN: 0367887231 ISBN-13: 9780367887230 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $52.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Social Science | Regional Studies |
| Dewey: 305.420 |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.57 lbs) 162 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. 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. 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. |
