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Bad Girls of the Arab World / ed. by Rula Quawas, Nadia Yaqub.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (239 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781477313374
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.409174927 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ1784 .B33 2017
  • HQ1784 .B33 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE Inciting Critique in the Feminist Classroom -- TWO “And Is It Impossible to Be Good Everywhere?” Love and Badness in America and the Arab World -- THREE Suspicious Bodies. Madame Bomba Performs against Death in Lebanon -- FOUR “Jihad Jane” as Good American Patriot and Bad Arab Girl: The Case of Nada Prouty after 9/11 -- FIVE Paying for Her Father’s Sins Yasmin as a Daughter of Unknown Lineage -- SIX The Making of Bad Palestinian Mothers during the Second Intifada -- SEVEN “They Are Not Like Your Daughters or Mine” Spectacles of Bad Women from the Arab Spring -- EIGHT “Fuck Your Morals” The Body Activism of Amina Sboui -- NINE Syrian Bad Girl Samar Yazbek: Refusing Burial -- TEN Reel Bad Maghrebi Women -- ELEVEN New Bad Girls of Sudan Women Singers in the Sudanese Diaspora -- TWELVE Being a Revolutionary and Writerly Rebel -- Afterword -- Afterword MIRAL AL-TAHAWY TRANSLATED BY SAMIA HISSEN DOANY -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: Women’s transgressive behaviors and perspectives are challenging societal norms in the Arab world, giving rise to anxiety and public debate. Simultaneously, however, other Arab women are unwillingly finding themselves labeled “bad” as authority figures attempt to redirect scrutiny from serious social ills such as patriarchy and economic exploitation, or as they impose new restrictions on women’s behavior in response to uncertainty and change in society. Bad Girls of the Arab World elucidates how both intentional and unintentional transgressions make manifest the social and cultural constructs that define proper and improper behavior, as well as the social and political policing of gender, racial, and class divisions. The works collected here address the experiences of women from a range of ages, classes, and educational backgrounds who live in the Arab world and beyond. They include short pieces in which the women themselves reflect on their experiences with transgression; academic articles about performance, representation, activism, history, and social conditions; an artistic intervention; and afterwords by the acclaimed novelists Laila al-Atrash and Miral al-Tahawy. The book demonstrates that women’s transgression is both an agent and a symptom of change, a site of both resistance and repression. Showing how transnational forces such as media discourses, mobility and confinement, globalization, and neoliberalism, as well as the legacy of colonialism, shape women’s badness, Bad Girls of the Arab World offers a rich portrait of women’s varied experiences at the boundaries of propriety in the twenty-first century.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE Inciting Critique in the Feminist Classroom -- TWO “And Is It Impossible to Be Good Everywhere?” Love and Badness in America and the Arab World -- THREE Suspicious Bodies. Madame Bomba Performs against Death in Lebanon -- FOUR “Jihad Jane” as Good American Patriot and Bad Arab Girl: The Case of Nada Prouty after 9/11 -- FIVE Paying for Her Father’s Sins Yasmin as a Daughter of Unknown Lineage -- SIX The Making of Bad Palestinian Mothers during the Second Intifada -- SEVEN “They Are Not Like Your Daughters or Mine” Spectacles of Bad Women from the Arab Spring -- EIGHT “Fuck Your Morals” The Body Activism of Amina Sboui -- NINE Syrian Bad Girl Samar Yazbek: Refusing Burial -- TEN Reel Bad Maghrebi Women -- ELEVEN New Bad Girls of Sudan Women Singers in the Sudanese Diaspora -- TWELVE Being a Revolutionary and Writerly Rebel -- Afterword -- Afterword MIRAL AL-TAHAWY TRANSLATED BY SAMIA HISSEN DOANY -- Contributors -- Index

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Women’s transgressive behaviors and perspectives are challenging societal norms in the Arab world, giving rise to anxiety and public debate. Simultaneously, however, other Arab women are unwillingly finding themselves labeled “bad” as authority figures attempt to redirect scrutiny from serious social ills such as patriarchy and economic exploitation, or as they impose new restrictions on women’s behavior in response to uncertainty and change in society. Bad Girls of the Arab World elucidates how both intentional and unintentional transgressions make manifest the social and cultural constructs that define proper and improper behavior, as well as the social and political policing of gender, racial, and class divisions. The works collected here address the experiences of women from a range of ages, classes, and educational backgrounds who live in the Arab world and beyond. They include short pieces in which the women themselves reflect on their experiences with transgression; academic articles about performance, representation, activism, history, and social conditions; an artistic intervention; and afterwords by the acclaimed novelists Laila al-Atrash and Miral al-Tahawy. The book demonstrates that women’s transgression is both an agent and a symptom of change, a site of both resistance and repression. Showing how transnational forces such as media discourses, mobility and confinement, globalization, and neoliberalism, as well as the legacy of colonialism, shape women’s badness, Bad Girls of the Arab World offers a rich portrait of women’s varied experiences at the boundaries of propriety in the twenty-first century.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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