Renegotiating Gender and the State in Tunisia between 2011 and 2014

Download or read book Renegotiating Gender and the State in Tunisia between 2011 and 2014 written by Anna Antonakis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna Antonakis’ analysis of the Tunisian transformation process (2011-2014) displays how negotiations of gender initiating new political orders do not only happen in legal and political institutions but also in media representations and on a daily basis in the family and public space. While conventionalized as a “model for the region”, this book outlines how the Tunisian transformation missed to address social inequalities and local marginalization as much as substantial challenges of a secular but conservative gender order inscribed in a Western hegemonic concept of modernity. She introduces the concept of “dissembled secularism” to explain major conflict lines in the public sphere and the exploitation of gender politics in a context of post-colonial dependencies.