Freedom without Permission: Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions
Frances S. Hasso is Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Sociology at Duke University and the author of Resistance, Repression, and Gender Politics in Occupied Palestine and Jordan and Consuming Desires: Family Crisis and the State in the Middle East.
Zakia Salime is Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University and the author of Between Feminism and Islam: Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco.
Frances S. Hasso is Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Sociology at Duke University and the author of Resistance, Repression, and Gender Politics in Occupied Palestine and Jordan and Consuming Desires: Family Crisis and the State in the Middle East.
Zakia Salime is Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University and the author of Between Feminism and Islam: Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco.
Making Intimate “Civilpolitics” in Southern Yemen
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Published:September 2016
Chapter 3 shows how the Southern Revolution in Yemen reconstituted public spaces, gendered subjectivities, and gendered practices. Revolution squares all over Aden became sites of organizing, street-corner universities, and havens of embodied forms of care and comfort. As the Southern Revolution mobilized women, young people, and the poor, it produced the widespread conviction that women should be reintegrated into public space, as was the case during the socialist People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen in the South (1967–90). The Southern Revolution produced civilpolitics, an imaginary of state power that is subservient and accountable to civil rather than military, tribal, or clerical forces.
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