ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Muslim and secular activism, pointing out their common androcentric nature. It investigates the oppressive elitism of secular feminism especially in the political sphere where women embody a kind of reverse paternalism. Neither has Muslim Tunisian feminism managed to gather together the women of the country. Secular and Muslim feminisms fail to defend both equality and difference. Neither secular nor Islamic feminism can put an end to the domination existing in Tunisian society. However, the sparkle of the Arab Spring, the Tunisian Revolution of 2010, changed things. The new pluralism and democracy enabled the emergence of a real opponent: a Muslim feminism, a 'cultural' or a 'differentialist' one, to use Nancy Fraser's word, whose self-proclaimed aim is to rehabilitate the femininity. Women's responsibilities and images in the new Islamic systems are symbolically foregrounded and then pragmatically relegated to the political margins.
