dc.contributor.advisor |
Lacey, A |
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dc.contributor.author |
Nasr, Hala |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2016-08-10T22:06:24Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2016 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/29900 |
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dc.description.abstract |
This thesis aims to understand whether the Egyptian state’s preoccupation with sexual harassment promotes gender justice. It poses the following questions: how women and men’s bodies are constructed and contested in the framing of sexual harassment; what ideological foundations, power relations, and national development goals inform this imagination; and how gender justice is imagined within the anti-sexual harassment agenda. It applies postcolonial feminist thought, alongside the Foucauldian concept of governmentality, to confront the dominant narrative of sexual harassment and expose gaps in the anti-sexual harassment agenda. It is not the intention of this thesis to present a black and white account of feminist praxis or direct criticism towards the movement in a way that promotes or opposes engagement with the state. Instead, it highlights what each of the various positions can bring to the table. This thesis does, however, do two things: first, it allows sexual harassment to be understood in the context of interconnected systems of structural oppression – capitalism, patriarchy, and imperialism. Second, it encourages a reinvigoration of Gender and Development through a return to its radical postcolonial feminist roots. Ending sexual harassment, or achieving gender justice in Egypt, is unlikely without a strong comprehensive vision and strategy that recognises and mobilises around these intersections of oppressions. If one thing is certain, the current hetero-patriarchal capitalist structures governing the exploitation and abuse of women will continue until their foundations are dismantled. |
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dc.publisher |
ResearchSpace@Auckland |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Masters Thesis - University of Auckland |
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dc.relation.isreferencedby |
UoA99264878500102091 |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.title |
Gender Justice and the Politics of Sexual Harassment |
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dc.type |
Thesis |
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thesis.degree.discipline |
Development Studies |
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thesis.degree.grantor |
The University of Auckland |
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thesis.degree.level |
Masters |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: The author |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess |
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pubs.elements-id |
538934 |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2016-08-11 |
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dc.identifier.wikidata |
Q112926104 |
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