Two books have come out in the last three years that explore revolutions and resistance from gendered perspectives in North Africa and West Asia. Both Bad Girls of the Arab World, edited by Nadia Yaqub and Rula Quawas (2017), and Freedom without Permission, edited by Frances S. Hasso and Zakia Salime, are collections of essays that engage with the transgressions, resistance, and revolutions of women across the region. The two collections complement each other well: together they cover more than twenty “case studies” in fourteen countries in North Africa and West Asia. Reading them together is a practice in shifting between looking at women’s microresistance and women’s participation in collective organizing. Where one book focuses more on individual stories of gendered subversion of social norms and its consequences, the other tackles collective revolutionary enactments and

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性别不良和革命性的立法

过去三年中出版了两本书，从性别角度探讨北非和西亚的革命和抵抗。Nadia Yaqub 和 Rula Quawas 编辑的《阿拉伯世界的坏女孩》（2017 年）和 Frances S. Hasso 和 Zakia Salime 编辑的《未经许可的自由》都是关于女性的过犯、抵抗和革命的论文集整个地区。这两个系列相得益彰：它们共同涵盖了北非和西亚 14 个国家的 20 多个“案例研究”。一起阅读它们是一种在关注女性的微观抵抗和女性参与集体组织之间转换的做法。一本书更多地关注性别颠覆社会规范及其后果的个人故事，