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The privilege of revolution: Gender, class, space, and affect in Egypt
Author(s) -
WINEGAR JESSICA
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2011.01349.x
Subject(s) - affect (linguistics) , privilege (computing) , class (philosophy) , space (punctuation) , politics , gender studies , sociology , class formation , political science , law , epistemology , philosophy , linguistics , communication
In this commentary, I challenge assumptions about political transformation by contrasting women's experiences at home during the Egyptian revolution with the image of the iconic male revolutionary in Tahrir Square. I call attention to the way that revolution is experienced and undertaken in domestic spaces, through different forms of affect, in ways deeply inflected by gender and class. [ Egypt, revolution, gender, class, space, affect, generation ]