03938nam a22005895i 4500 978-3-031-70081-1 DE-He213 20251030114633.0 cr nn 008mamaa 241222s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031700811 978-3-031-70081-1 10.1007/978-3-031-70081-1 doi HQ12-449 JFSJ bicssc SOC032000 bisacsh JBSF thema Elguedri Dumbrovska, Raoudha. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 89369 Bodies, Religion, and Power in Tunisia [electronic resource] : Free Sâlah/Sâlha / by Raoudha Elguedri Dumbrovska. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. IX, 186 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 1: Introduction -- 2: The position of the body in sociology. From marginality to centrality -- 3: Body expressions in Tunisia. Meanings and connotations -- 4: Conclusion. This book explores the body as a vector for reading the rapid changes in contemporary Tunisia through questions of sexuality, forms of clothing, and the dynamics of gender relations. Grounded in 15 years of sociological empirical research on the post-revolutionary period of Tunisia (2011-2020), this study addresses youth uprisings, through their bodies, against the dualities of traditional and modern, masculinity and femininity, and the legitimate and the marginal. Bringing together empirical research and a theoretical overview of the evolution of the place of the body in sociology and feminist theory, this book deconstructs biological, deterministic views of the body and offers instead a perspective of the body as interactive, subjective, societal, and cosmic, permeated by different systems, policies, philosophies, and ways of living. Chapters analyse Arab and Islamic cultural and cognitive frameworks for the body and apply Foucauldian and feminist concepts of the body and power to provide a comparative sociological study of global politics around the body while centering Tunisian youth movements that demand free use of the body. It will be of interest to students and researchers in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Sociology of the Body, Middle Eastern Studies, and Feminist Theory. Raoudha Elguedri Dumbrovska is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar. She has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Tunis and taught Sociology at the University of Tunis (2014-2015 and 2018-2019). She worked as a researcher at the Observatory of Gender and Equality of Chances between Sexes in CREDIF, Tunisia (2012-2015). Sex. 66477 Human body Social aspects. 68458 Islam Study and teaching. 66932 Feminism. 1785 Feminist theory. 61151 Ethnology Middle East . 69800 Culture. 59159 Gender Studies. 66478 Sociology of the Body. 68461 Islamic Studies. 66937 Feminism and Feminist Theory. 67739 Middle Eastern Culture. 69802 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031700804 Printed edition: 9783031700828 Printed edition: 9783031700835 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70081-1 ZDB-2-SLS ZDB-2-SXS 65941 65941