In Transformation? Renegotiation Gender and State Feminism between 2011 and 2014 in Tunisia: Power, Positionality and the Public Sphere.

Description

In her PhD project, she analyses renegotiations of gender and state feminism between 2011 and 2014, critically engaging with theories on (counter)public spheres and intersectionality. For the analysis, three different dimensions of the public sphere have been distinguished: The institutional dimension encapsulates the level of the national family codification, the constitution of 2014 and the international codifications of women’s rights. Second, the question of representation of women as subjects and objects in the national mass media is investigated within the representational dimension of the public sphere and thirdly the dimension of the local public sphere in form of associations, organizations and encounters. She finds how the hegemonic concepts of “secular” and “modern” that have been developed in relation to a state feminist paradigm in the post-colonial context are inscribed in negotiation processes in different dimensions of the public sphere but also explores emerging networked feminist counterpublics.