As the 2011 uprisings in North Africa reverberated across the Middle East, a diverse cross section of women and girls publicly disputed gender and sexual norms in novel, unauthorized, and often shocking ways. In a series of case studies ranging from Tunisia's 14 January Revolution to the Taksim Gezi Park protests in Istanbul, the contributors to Freedom without Permission reveal the centrality of the intersections between body, gender, sexuality, and space to these groundbreaking events. Essays include discussions of the blogs written by young women in Egypt, the Women2Drive campaign in Saudi Arabia, the reintegration of women into the public sphere in Yemen, the sexualization of female protesters encamped at Bahrain's Pearl Roundabout, and the embodied, performative, and artistic spaces of Morocco's 20 February Movement. Conceiving of revolution as affective, embodied, spatialized, and aesthetic forms of upheaval and transgression, the contributors show how women activists imagined, inhabited, and deployed new spatial arrangements that undermined the public-private divisions of spaces, bodies, and social relations, continuously transforming them through symbolic and embodied transgressions.
Contributors. Lamia Benyoussef, Susanne Dahlgren, Karina Eileraas, Susana Galan, Banu Goekariksel, Frances S. Hasso, Sonali Pahwa, Zakia Salime

About the Author
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.

Reviews
"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." -- Gul Aldikacti 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 *



Book Information
ISBN 9780822362418
Author Frances S. Hasso
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Duke University Press
Publisher Duke University Press
Weight(grams) 431g