This paper will reflect on how the gendered/ dissenting/ protesting body during the Arab uprisings of 2011, was continuously reconstituted through vociferous processes that act in corporeal ways. State control, Islamism, the neoliberal market, the military establishment and sociocultural patriarchal systems all act as intersectional forces that demarcate the boundaries of corporeal dissent just as women's resistance to them simultaneously forges new paths of sociopolitical transformation. Seeing women's bodies as a means to their political ends, Islamists, liberals and pro-government groups alike have all competed over the definition of the non-male body as transgressive, unregulated and unruly. Despite these hegemonic representations, the counter narratives of gendered corporeality persist in articulating a discourse of resistance that re-imagined the female body in public spaces and consequently transformed these spaces. Thus, battles over authenticity, cultural dominance and political control were fought over women's bodies just as the resistance of these bodies transformed the nature of dissent and revolution.