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Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon (Nicola Pratt)
When women took to the streets during the mass protests of the ‘Arab Spring’, the subject of feminism in the Middle East and North Africa returned to the international spotlight. In the subsequent years, countless commentators treated the region’s gender inequality as a consequence of fundamentally cultural or religious problems. In so doing, they overlooked the specifically political nature of these women’s activism.
Why Palestine is a Feminist Issue: A Reckoning with Western Feminism in a Time of Genocide
Nicola Pratt, Afaf Jabiri, Ashjan Ajour, Hala Shoman, Maryam Aldossari and Sara Ababneh The authors recently published a Conversations Section entitled, “Why Palestine is a Feminist Issue: A Reckoning with Western Feminism in a Time of Genocide”, in the International Feminist Journal of Politics. The article, based on a roundtable discussion at last year’s BRISMES Annual Conference, is available as Open Access for 3 months.
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