10.17192/meta.2020.14.8247 agosti, marta marta agosti Shame a Litmus Test to the Revolutionary Affects: the Female Protestor and the Reconfiguration of Gender Normativity Middle East - Topics + Arguments : Vol 14 (2020) Philipps-Universität Marburg 2020 Egypt, sexual violence, rape, gender, affects, social movements Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS) 2020-07-14 2020-07-13 en JournalArticle https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2020/240/8247 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2020-240-82476 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2020/240/8247/8247.png 2196-629X application/pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Tahrir Square was the critical event that prompted a new generation of Egyptian feminist and human rights activists to join citizens in the streets to claim a new social and gender contract. While female protestors were an essential part of the revolution, their bodies powerfully triggered the economy of shame to ostracize some activists and to underpin, as Williams explains structures of feeling that sidelined the need to address rape in the square. This paper argues that the female protestor is a focus of political violence whose experiences illuminate the matrix that sustains and normalizes sexual violence in a society. This allows us to connect female body politics with broader socio-economic and political conflicts and with processes of state reconfiguration in marginal/liminal spaces. 2196-629X Middle East - Topics + Arguments Vol 14 (2020)