Freedom Without Permission

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.

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction / Frances S. Hasso and Zakia Salime  11. Politics in the Digital Boudoir: Sentimentality and the Transformation of Civil Debate in Egyptian Women's Blogs / Sonali Pahwa  252. Gender and the Fractured Mythscapes of National Identity in Revolutionary Tunisia / Lamia Benyoussef  513. Making Intimate "Civilpolitics" in Southern Yemen / Susanne Dahlgren  804. The Sect-Sex-Police Nexus and Politics in Bahrain's Pearl Revolution / Frances S. Hasso  1055. "The Women Are Coming": Gender, Space, and the Politics of Inauguration / Zakia Salime  1386. Cautious Enactments: Interstitial Spaces of Gender Politics in Saudia Arabia / Susana GalÁn  1667. Revolution Undressed: The Politics of Rage and Aesthetics in Aliaa Elmahdy's Body Activism / Karina Eileraas  1968. Intimate Politics of Protest: Gendering Embodiments and Redefining Spaces in Istanbul's Taksim Gezi Park and the Arab Revolutions / Banu GÖkariksel  221Bibliography  259Contributors  279Index  283

"This book will certainly add to the scholarship and would be a highly informative read for those interested in deeply understanding the multiple levels and spaces in which revolution has happened in the Arab world and beyond. Freedom Without Permission is an insightful and fascinating read." - Autumn R. Cockrell-Abdullah (Journal of International and Global Studies) "Freedom without Permission offers a variety of analyses and viewpoints while considering women’s bodies and spaces as sites of revolutions and uprisings. All contributing authors demonstrate an eye for detail and a strength of analysis that have shaped gender politics and the politics of gender during and after the revolutions." - Douja M. Mamelouk (Review of Middle East Studies) “The articles provide fascinating accounts of gendered and embodied politics of space that defy a reductionist approach to revolutionary insurgencies.” - Gül Aldikaçti Marshall (Gender & Society) "This collection presents an important contribution not only to gender studies and Middle Eastern studies, but to the study of revolutions and social movements." - Deema Kaedbey (Journal of Middle East Women's Studies)