Radius : a story of feminist revolution
El-Rifae, Yasmin2022
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In 2012, the joyful hopes of the democratic Egyptian Revolution were tempered by revelations of mass sexual assault in Tahrir Square in Cairo, the revolution's symbolic birthplace. This is the story of the women and men who formed Opantish - Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment - who deployed hundreds of volunteers, scouts rescue teams, and getaway drivers to intervene in the spiraling cases of sexual violence against women protesters in the square. Organised and led by women during 2012-2013 - the final, chaotic months of Egypt's revolution - teams of volunteers fought their way into circles of men to pull the woman at the center to safety. Often, they risked assault themselves. Journalist Yasmin El-Rifae was one of Opantish's organizers, and this is her evocative, aching account of their work.
Main title:
Radius : a story of feminist revolution / Yasmin El-Rifae.
Author:
El-Rifae, Yasmin, author
Imprint:
London : Verso, 2022.
Collation:
218 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781839767685 (hbk)
Dewey class:
364.1530962
LC class:
HV6593.E84
Local class:
364.15309
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3201084
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