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North African Women after the Arab Spring -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Post-2011 Pressures for Expanded Female Citizenship and Family Law Reform in Mena: Theorizing on Change amidst Political Transition -- Introduction -- What Is Family Law? -- Family Law Reform in MENA 1990-2010 -- Citizenship Rights -- Why Compare Female Citizenship in MENA? -- Do Women Count as "People" in Arab Politics? -- Enter the 2011 Uprisings: Observations and Reflections on Female Citizenship Post-2011 -- Pressures for Enhanced Female Citizenship -- (i) From Domestic Violence to Body Politics? -- (ii) New Organizational Forms and Revival of Old Gendered Constellations -- (iii) Economic Globalization and the Feminization of Poverty in MENA -- Islamic Feminism Rearticulated in a Post-2011 Framework: Secularization and/or Democratization? -- A Widened Mashriq-Maghrib Divide After 2011 -- The Poorer the State the More Legal Reforms in Strengthened Female Civil Rights? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 3 The Liberating Force of Art, Humor, and Social Media: Women Cartoonists of the Arab Spring -- Introduction -- Cartooning: A Male Mode of Expression? -- The Woman Cartoonist: An Impossible Ideal? -- Feminine Humor, a Subversive Technique of Resistance -- Extending the Language of Caricature -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Further Reading -- 4 The Arab Spring and Women's Rights Activism on Facebook -- Political Context of Women's Rights in Egypt -- Struggle for Power in the Formal and Informal Political Spheres -- Online Self-presentation: An Accurate Version of the Self -- Self-presentation of Arab Women on Facebook -- Analysis of Photographs on the Uprising of Women in the Arab World -- Use of Facebook and Links to the Arab Spring -- Conclusion -- Appendix A -- References

This book looks with hindsight at the Arab Spring and sheds light on the debates it triggered within North African societies and the alarming developments in women's rights. Although women played a key role in the success of the uprisings that wiped out long ruling oligarchies across the region, they remain excluded from decision-making circles and the formal political and electoral apparatus. Women's rights are written off constitution drafts, and issues of gender equality are hardly addressed. The chapters that compose this volume present research and reflections from different perspectives to help the reader get a better picture of the profound turmoil that beset this part of the so-called "Arab" World. Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, the contributors discuss a host of questions related to women and gender in the Arab world and address the broader question of why women's efforts and momentum during the revolution did not seem to pay off the same way they did for men. This book provides an assessment of the situation from the inside. It is intended to help the general public as well as the academic world comprehend the significance of what is going on in this key part of the Islamic World.