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Judicial Activism in the Context of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution: Emerging Conceptions of Femininity and Masculinity

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This article investigates gender implications of judicial activism within the context of
the 2011 revolution. Relying on analysis of a sample of judicial decisions in the field
of divorce and child-rearing, I argue that individual judges used the family courts as a
platform to articulate alternative legal discourses prior to the 2011 revolution. During
the period between February 2011 and the military coup in July 2013 family legislation
emerged as a controversial point. The period witnessed the mobilisation of small but
vocal fathers’ rights groups that called for a revolution in Egyptian family law and
formed strategic alliances with a handful of judges. The latter became members of a
legislative committee formed under the presidency of Muhammad Mursi. I investigate
the gender implications of their activism against a background where old and new actors
and institutions competed over the right to interpret shari’a in an authoritative way.

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Revolution
Gender
Femininity
Egyptian Revolution
Masculinity
Emerging Conceptions
Muslim family law
Islamic shari’a
Judicial Activism
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