New Feminism as Personal Revolutions
Microrebellious Bodies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18958715 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zakia Salime (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 14-20 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-6943 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/676962 |
| OpenAlex | W2325465374 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 12 |
In March 2013, the nineteen-year-old Tunisian woman Amina Sboui, affiliated with the group Femen, posted two topless pictures of herself on the Internet. She marked her chest with the expression “Fuck your morals” and, in Arabic, “My body belongs to me, and it is not anybody’s honor.” The controversy over Sboui’s semantics of the body inspired a group of women to form Femen Morocco on March 23, 2013. Inspired by the epistemology of the naked body, women started to post topless pictures of themselves on Femen Morocco’s Facebook page. Much earlier, in August 2011, Woman Choufouch, a Moroccan anti–sexual harassment online network, planned to organize a SlutWalk to draw attention to the bodily oppression of women and the sexualization of their presence in public space. The nude marks the visual memory of the revolutionary square, inviting a new power/knowledge configuration and a new politics of remembering along sexualized scripts, rather than moralizing ones. When inserted in the paradoxical spaces of the revolution, disruptive nudes and sexually scripted bodies create an immediate temporality in which women’s bodies and sexuality are not suspended (as usual) but are remembered as part of the entangled sensibilities of the revolution and its visual memory
Art · Feminism · Honor · Human sexuality · Media studies · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Public space · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Studies · Law · North African History and Literature
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| Citations per year | 1.73 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |