Week 13

The article "Turning the Gendered Politics of the Security State Inside Out?" by Paul Amar analyzes sexual Egypt Egypt politics in the global south as a crucial harassment for testing and reformulating the mix of emancipatory and repressive governance practices that constitute contemporary gender-sensitive ‘human security’ regimes. In Egypt, between 2003 and 2010, internationalist feminist campaigns advocated anti-harassment projects that demonized working-class youth masculinities as well as ‘disreputable’ public femininities in an attempt to intensify the policing of the city and discipline public sociability.  He explained that women activist were subjected to violence due to their demands of protecting human rights. A reason why women wanted protection was due to cultural effects impacted the Egyptian Egyptian Egyptian. Amar talks about protests that were going on in Egyptian Because of the uprising of many protests and movements during this time the security state decided to intervene by sending out their own men “to attempt to delegitimize, intimidate and blur both the image and message of these movements by infiltration and surrounding them with plain-clothes thugs, deputized by police and paramilitary security forces” (Amar 308). 

Paul introduces three significant innovations: 1. he upsets the assumption that forms of gender politics always flow from the international to the local (or from the North to the South); 2; he offers a “socio-historical contextualization of the women’s movement in Egypt” that does not reduce it to a distinction between a public men’s realm and a private women’s domain; 3; he refuses to dump women’s (and men’s) efforts to transform gender politics in Egypt into either a liberal, progressive box or an illiberal, backward box. It is also shown that the media tries to cover up what is actually going on. And they did not expect women to even involve themselves in these protests. Growing up as a muslim women its really hard because there is so much expectations you must have and follow. You must be pious and if you are not the men in the society will put you down. And that is something that is not fair to women and is really sad.