Frances S. Hasso is Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Sociology at Duke University and the author of
Zakia Salime is Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University and the author of
Frances S. Hasso is Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Sociology at Duke University and the author of
Zakia Salime is Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University and the author of
Politics in the Digital Boudoir: Sentimentality and the Transformation of Civil Debate in Egyptian Women’s Blogs
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Published:September 2016
Sonali Pahwa, 2016. "Politics in the Digital Boudoir: Sentimentality and the Transformation of Civil Debate in Egyptian Women’s Blogs", Freedom without Permission: Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions, Frances S. Hasso, Zakia Salime
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Chapter 1 investigates the relationship between digital and political repertoires in Egypt, with a focus on women’s personal blogs that emerged before the 2011 revolution. It shows that the intimate publics generated by these blogs were not simply sites of debate about revolution; they were staging grounds for entirely new political enactments that include identification and disidentification. Activist women’s personal blogs are intimate rather than private sites of reframing a social self. The centrality of gender performance in these blogs indicates a productive relationship between gendered affects and political subjectivities in digital publics. Blogs were not merely sentimental; they challenged the dominant scripts of national politics, reconfigured proximity and distance to intimates, and challenged a public/private dichotomy. Women’s blogs countered a hegemonic dramaturgy of revolution with a beginning and end and offered alternative theaters of sentiment and politics.
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