This paper argues that the protestors’ silence concerning most of the problems usually included in the list of ‘women’s issues’ raises the question of how prevalent these issues are (or not) in the lives of Jordanian women. Drawing on Foucault’s notion of discourse,insights from intersectional feminists and critical development studies,the auther argues that the composition of the Jordanian women’s movement on the one hand,and how these women conceptualize women’s rights discursively,as a result of how global discursive shifts were adopted in Jordan on the other hand,help explain why the list of women’s issues ignores the lived realities of most Jordanian women. In detail,the auther examines who participated in the Hirak and who did not. She seeks to understand the absence of members of the Jordanian Women’s Movement through conducting a historical reading of this movement. In contrast,the auther studys why women members of the Day Wage Labor movement participated in the Hirak. The paper ends with recent developments in Jordanian women’s rights activism and asks whether intersectional understandings of womanhood are being considered.