Women in post-revolutionary Egypt

Peter Hervik is anthropologist, Professor in Migration studies at the Department of Culture and Global Studies, at Aalborg University, Denmark. Hervik has conducted research among the Yucatec Maya of Mexico and on the representation in the news media of religious and ethnic minorities in Denmark, particularly themes of radical right wing populism, neonationalism, neoracism, ethnicitzation, Islamophobia and related issues.

Mette Toft Nielsen studied Culture, Communication and Globalization at Aalborg University, Denmark. She went to Egypt in 2012 to write her thesis and engage herself in the field of education. Through these experiences she got inspiration for the present study.

This book addresses how identity, structures, and agency affect women's everyday lives in post-revolutionary Egypt. The authors analyse the topic both on a macro- as well as on a micro-level. Through interviews and workshops, women around Egypt express their own experiences in dialogue, in groups and in drawings. Based on the analysis of this material the reader gets insights into personal experiences, believes and opinions of a diverse group of women in terms of age, economic class, education, geography, culture, religion, ethnicity, marital status, and political orientation. The detail-rich empirical material presented in the book visualize that the 2011 revolution works as an utter frame on a macro-level, while different issues are more pressing on a micro-level.

The book addresses how Identity, structure and agency affect women's everyday lives in post-revolutionary Egypt. Through interviews and workshops, women around Egypt express their own experiences in dialogue, in groups and in drawings. The reader get insights into personal experiences of a diverse group of women.

Egypt - Women - Post-revolution - Identity - Agency - Sexual harassment - Female genital mutilation - Male superiority - Political representation - Role of religion.