1. Introduction: Gender paradoxes of the Arab Spring 2. Modernising women and democratisation after the Arab Spring 3. The Arab Spring exception: Algeria’s political ambiguities and citizenship rights 4. Political, aesthetic, and ethical positions of Tunisian women artists, 2011–13 5. The revolution shall not pass through women’s bodies: Egypt, uprising and gender politics 6. Tunisia’s women: partners in revolution 7. Gender and state-building in Libya: towards a politics of inclusion 8. Egyptian women and the 25th of January Revolution: presence and absence 9. Equal or complementary? Women in the new Tunisian Constitution after the Arab Spring 10. Young women and social media against sexual harassment in North Africa 11. Working-class women revolt: gendered political economy in Morocco
Biography
Andrea Khalil, PhD, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Middle East Studies, Queens College, The City University of New York. Khalil is the author of several books and articles on North African including Crowds and Politics in North Africa: Tunisia, Algeria and Libya (2014), North African Cinema in a Global Context: Through the Lens of Diaspora (2008, editor). The Arab Avant-Garde: Experiments in North African Art and Literature (2003).
