Abstract
This contribution reevaluates the postcolonlal feminist narrative of Arab women's involvement in the decolonization process. While attentive to the existing literary and critical discourses surrounding women's complex positions in the moments and movements, the article identifies untheorised forms of resistance that have tended to remain invisible but are worthy of our attention. Working comparatively across Palestinian, Algerian and Tunisian contexts, the article explores the revolutionary potentials of women's intellectualism as an identifiable mode of struggle; of the category of the 'veteran' as one that offers a fresh way of conceiving of women's solidarity and revolutionary inheritance; and of varied conceptions of 'labour', which help us think differently about how it might be possible to 'work' towards revolution.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Edinburgh companion to the postcolonial Middle East |
Editors | Anna Ball , Karim Mattar |
Place of Publication | edinburgh |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Chapter | 16 |
Pages | 309-328 |
Number of pages | 19 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781474427715 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781474427685 |
Publication status | Accepted/In press - 6 Feb 2018 |
Keywords
- postcolonial; Arab World; women;s studies; gender studies