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
The Sect-Sex-Police Nexus and Politics in Bahrain’s Pearl Revolution
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Published:September 2016
Frances S. Hasso, 2016. "The Sect-Sex-Police Nexus and Politics in Bahrain’s Pearl Revolution", Freedom without Permission: Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions, Frances S. Hasso, Zakia Salime
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Chapter 4 explores spatialized embodied and sectarian dynamics in Bahrain’s 14 February Revolution, also known as the Pearl Revolution, which began in 2011. Based on interviews and examination of primary source documents and visual materials, it argues that gendered, sexualized, and racializing dynamics worked through each other in a sex-sect-police nexus as long-standing conflict between the majority of citizens and the Khalifa rulers intensified. The chapter demonstrates how the Pearl Revolution ruptured the gendered arrangements of bodies and voices in space and triggered sexualization as a racializing state technique. The Pearl Revolution led to a rise in women-led confrontational street politics not necessarily authorized by Bahraini opposition men. This produced sublimated tensions not captured by images of orderly gender-segregated marches.
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