Nadje Al-Ali (Published: December 2006)

The history of the Egypt ian women’s movement is characterized by a variety of competing and sometimes overlapping discourses, including secular-oriented and religious voices. However, during the past decades, both the state and women’s activists had to take into account increasing fundamentalist activism, discourses and demands. These days the discursive and political spaces of secular activists is becoming smaller and smaller. But how do secularoriented women struggling for women’s and human rights as well as changing gender relations counter Islamist constituencies and fundamentalist tendencies?

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