Freedom without Permission

"Filling a lacuna in the scholarship on gender and the Arab Spring, these essays approach their topics from especially sophisticated, innovative, and engaging angles, putting forward new theories and methods for thinking about the intersections of politics, gender, revolution, and feminism. Given the major significance of women to the Arab Spring revolutions, this outstanding book is more urgent than ever." - Nadine Naber, author of Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism

"Even though on the surface revolutions proceed as total events represented by overarching 'people,' they are marked by fragments and fractures. Focusing on gender and place, this book challenges such an all-embracing image by uncovering the plurality of voices, interests, actions, and expectations that constitute the totality we call 'revolution.' As such it is a valuable contribution to the study of the Arab revolutions beyond the states, regimes, and formal institutions." - Asef Bayat, Catherine and Bruce Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

"Freedom Without Permission should not be read as a historical snapshot of a particular revolutionary moment, but for its insightful feminist analysis which, while firmly located in specific geopolitical cases, can nevertheless illuminate other similar instances of popular mobilisation and women’s role in revolutionary disorder." - Teodora Todorova, Antipode

"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

"Like previous works exploring the Arab revolutions, the themes of space and technology are present, but entirely new dimensions are revealed by the introduction of the female experience within those places before, during, and after the uprisings." - Middle East Journal

"This book is a valuable contribution to growing literature examining the political, aesthetic, affective, and performative dynamics associated with the Arab Uprisings of 2011–2013. . . . It is an enthusiastic, hopeful documentation of individual and collective efforts associated with the 'Arab Spring.'" - Rayya El Zein, Politics & Gender

"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.” - Gül Aldikaçti Marshall, Gender & Society

"An important book about significant contemporary events." - Devorah Kalekin-Fishman, International Sociology Reviews

"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