Women, and the women’s movement, have suffered severe suppression in Tunisia. Recently, Khedija Arfaoui presented a paper outlining th history of the feminist movement in Tunisia from the 1920s to 2000s at the Sixth Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting in Florence and MOntecatini, Italy. HRH has had regular contact with human rights organisations in Tunisia, and is pleased to refer our readers to this and other papers from the conference. (10-MAY-05)
Khedija Arfaoui of the Association of Tunisian Women for Research and Development, presented a paper on the “Development of the Feminist Movement
in Tunisia: 1920s-2000s” at the Sixth Mediterranean Social and Political Research (MSPR) Meeting, which took place on March 16 – 20, 2005, in Florence and Montecatini, Italy. The paper examines how a feminist movement could emerge in a society that secluded women in the domestic sphere, forcing them to hide their body and face by wearing a veil, and prohibiting any contact between unrelated males and females. The conference, organized by the Mediterranean Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy), brought together 250 scholars from the Middle East & North Africa, Europe, and elsewhere.
For a copy of the paper, contact: khedija.arfaoui@positiftunisie.com
For full program of the conference, list of papers presented, and ways of accessing them, go to: www.iue.it/RSCAS/Research/Mediterranean/mspr2005/Index.shtml
For other publication and papers from previous years, go to: www.iue.it/RSCAS/Research/Mediterranean/Publications.shtml
