How does a scholar write about revolution? I was left with this question after reading three recent books relating to the Arab revolutions and uprisings that began in late 2010 and, by some accounts, continue into the present. These works are similar in being inquiries into the gendered and sexualized conditions of and for revolutionary politics. Superficial likenesses aside—all focus on gender in Egypt—Marwan M. Kraidy’s Naked Blogger of Cairo, Maria Frederika Malmström’s Politics of Female Circumcision in Egypt, and Mariz Tadros’s Resistance, Revolt, and Gender Justice in Egypt are works from different fields: media studies, anthropology, and development studies, respectively. Kraidy and Tadros draw on literature across disciplinary boundaries but speak most forcefully from their primary disciplines. I approach these works from the perspective of a historian of Egypt and the Indian Ocean world interested...
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Getting to the Party on Time: Revolution, Gender, and Sexuality as Global Historical Problematics
The Naked Blogger of Cairo: Creative Insurgency in the Arab World
. Kraidy, Marwan M.. Cambridge, MA
: Harvard University Press
, 2017
. 304 pages. isbn 9780674980051.
The Politics of Female Circumcision in Egypt: Gender, Sexuality and the Construction of Identity
. Malmström, Maria Frederika. London
: Tauris
, 2016
. 293 pages. isbn 9781784531577.
Resistance, Revolt, and Gender Justice in Egypt
. Tadros, Mariz. Syracuse, NY
: Syracuse University Press
, 2016
. 338 pages. isbn 9780815634508.
Wilson Chacko Jacob
Wilson Chacko Jacob
WILSON CHACKO JACOB is associate professor of history at Concordia University, Montreal. Contact: wilson.jacob@concordia.ca.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 338–342.
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Wilson Chacko Jacob; Getting to the Party on Time: Revolution, Gender, and Sexuality as Global Historical Problematics. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 1 November 2018; 14 (3): 338–342. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7025441
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