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Feminist Pedagogy: Teaching Gender Politics in Egypt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2023

Shereen Abouelnaga
Shereen Abouelnaga*
Affiliation:
Department of English, Cairo University
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Email: shereens66@gmail.com
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Teaching gender politics in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is often marked by pedagogical, sociocultural, and political challenges. In the MENA context, the effects of authoritarian politics, conservative cultural understanding of gender relations, and neoliberal policies intersect in the classroom. Amid such a charged setting, applying a feminist pedagogy that subverts paradigms of power and preexisting socioeconomic realities in the classroom is increasingly contentious, yet even more necessary.

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Critical Perspectives Article
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Politics & Gender , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , March 2023 , pp. 284 - 289
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Women, Gender, and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association

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