The Tunisian women's rights movement: from nascent activism to influential power-broking - 1

Tunisian women have received significant attention for their active participation in preserving and extending women's rights since 2011.

However, their activism and latest achievements should be considered not a recent phenomenon but rather part and parcel of a distinctive local history that has included women as agents of change.

This book examines Tunisian women's lived experiences, as individuals and as a group, within a sociohistorical framework that uncovers the enduring feminine footprint over centuries and eventually underpins and defines their most recent fight for gender equality in postrevolutionary Tunisia.