Although sexual harassment is a worldwide phenomenon, the contemporary case of sexual harassment in Egypt is noteworthy, as the nation only recently occupied a top position on the map of sexual harassment on a world scale. In November 2013, Egypt was declared by the Thomson Reuters Foundation as the worst country for women to live in within the Arab World when compared to twenty-two other Arab countries, largely as a result of its female sexual harassment rates. 1 Similarly, and on a more international scale, the United Nations Population Fund declared Egypt as ranking “second in the world after Afghanistan in terms of this issue.” 2 In the years following the 2011 revolution, the nature of sexual harassment in Egyptian society greatly evolved, as it transformed from a hidden phenomenon to an overtly prevalent social epidemic. This study presents the “weaponization” of sexual harassment as a common ground where class struggles, state policies, and women’s empowerment intertwine in post-revolutionary Egyptian society. It argues that the phenomenon was partially produced by an ongoing class struggle, manipulatively reproduced by the state, and strategically resisted by women for different yet interrelated reasons.

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埃及的性骚扰

尽管性骚扰是一种世界性现象，但埃及的当代性骚扰案例值得注意，因为该国最近才在世界范围内的性骚扰地图上占据领先地位。2013 年 11 月，与其他 22 个阿拉伯国家相比，埃及被汤森路透基金会宣布为阿拉伯世界中女性最不适宜居住的国家，这主要是因为其女性性骚扰率高。1 同样，在更国际化的范围内，联合国人口基金宣布埃及“在这个问题上排名世界第二，仅次于阿富汗”。2 在 2011 年革命之后的几年里，埃及社会中性骚扰的性质发生了巨大变化，它从一种隐藏的现象转变为一种明显的社会流行病。本研究将性骚扰的“武器化”作为阶级斗争、国家政策和妇女赋权在革命后埃及社会交织在一起的共同基础。它认为，这种现象部分是由持续的阶级斗争产生的，由国家操纵复制，并因不同但相互关联的原因受到女性的战略性抵制。