Surfacing

Surfacing, is an international peer-reviewed electronic journal of graduate scholarship that provides a forum for dialogue and debate concerning gender studies throughout the Global South. Initiated by graduate students at the American University in Cairo under the auspices of the Institute for Gender and Women Studies (IGWS), the journal seeks to promote the theorization of gender throughout the global South.

Published bi-annually, our hope is to foster a dynamic community that ‘surfaces’ the diversity of desires and interests within the different intellectual communities of our region. We welcome inter-disciplinary submissions in both electronic and multimedia formats that critically assess the construction of ‘gender’ in line with new theoretical, social, cultural and political developments.

Vol. 3, No. 1 TOC (forthcoming June 2010)

 Volume 2, No. 1

Table of Contents

Introduction
Surfacing Contextualized Contours of Gender and Conflict in the Global South
Yasemin Ozer

Articles
Engendering Forced Migration: Victimization, Masculinity and the Forgotten Voice
Hebah Farrag

Obscuring the Realities of Gender-Based Violence: European Policies on Iraqi Asylum Claims
Mallory Wankel

Verbal Abuse: Anti-Trafficking Rhetoric and Violence Against Women
Sherief Gaber

Gendered Contestations: An Analysis of Street Harassment in Cairo and its
Implications for Women’s Access to Public Spaces
Nadia Ilahi

Interview
Interview With Anne Marie Goetz
Ali Atef

Review
Review of ECWR’s Seminar on Sexual Harassment and Egypt’s Tourism Industry
Azita Azargoshasb

Photoessay
Prison is For Men: Remembering Al-Fara’a
Michael Kennedy

 Volume 1

Table of Contents
-Ali Atef and Karem Said, Introduction.
-Karem Said, Ruminations on the Art of Domestic Glass Display: The Commodity Capture of Two Grandmothers.
-Kavita Kapur, Rethinking Women’s Empowerment: A Critical Appraisal of Gender Mainstreaming in International Human Rights Law.
-Yasmine Rifaat, Blogging the Body: The Case of Egypt
Notes from the Field
-Fouad Halbouni, A Fragment on the Everyday and its Burdens among Cement Carriers in Saft El-Laban.
Photoessay
-Ragaui Moussa, Shadows of Cement Dust: My Experience with Cement Carriers in Saft El-Laban

For slower internet connections, we have provided the option to download individual articles here.

For more information and submission guidelines contact the editors: surfcing@aucegypt.edu