The Revolution Shall Not Pass Through Women’s Bodies: Egypt, Uprising and Gender Politics Abstract This paper analyzes the outcome of the Egyptian uprising on gender issues by focusing on women’s bodies and the ways by which they constitute and are constituted by Islamism, militarism, protest and sexuality in the context of the revolution. While these “feminine” bodies are disciplined and regulated through these discourses, they are also sites of dissent and revolution. I begin by exploring three vignettes. The first describes the legal case of Samira Ibrahim against the military apparatus’s virginity tests; the second explores the circumstances surrounding the brutal attack on a female protestor dubbed ‘the girl in the blue bra’ by the media, and then finally the last vignette centers on Aliaa Al Mahdy’s ‘nude activism.’ These three cases illustrate the centrality of female corporeality in the political transformations taking place post the so-called “Arab Spring.” A female protestor in Tahrir held a sign with the following slogan: ‘The Revolution will not pass through the bodies of women. The Revolution will pass with the bodies of women. No to sexual terrorism.’ In just a few words this protestor captured the gender politics of an entire revolution. Seeing women’s bodies as a means to their political ends, Islamists, liberals and pro government groups—to name a few groups, viewed the female body as transgressive, unregulated and unruly. Despite these hegemonic representations, the narratives of gendered corporeality persist in articulating a counter discourse that perhaps will succeed in imagining the female body differently in public spaces. These bodies as shown in the vignettes this paper will discuss offer novel forms of corporeal practices that as they appropriate systemic forms of discipline and regulation also reconstitute them into new and personal ways of expressing counter discursive means of resistance.