ERC Starting Grant · 2022
Feminisms and the Mobilisation of Law in Gulf Countries
Abstract: Current literature have tended to analyze feminist activisms in MENA almost exclusively from the point of view of their effect on social change broadly defined, reemphasising the reifications of women as victims by sharia laws, the veil and repressive cultural and political systems. In addition, scholars have often directed their attention to visible forms of feminist activism including protesting in revolutionary countries such as Egypt, Tunisia, Lebanon, Yemen, Bahrain, among others, and have marginalised feminisms in stable countries. In this context, GulfFeminisms project is groundbreaking in three ways. First, it examines the under-studied domains of the genealogies of…
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