Burning the veil the Algerian war and the 'emancipation' of Muslim women, 1954-62
Burning the veil draws upon sources from newly-opened archives, exploring the ‘emancipation’ of Muslim women from the veil, seclusion and perceived male oppression during the Algerian War of decolonisation. The claimed French liberation was contradicted by the violence inflicted on women through rap...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester, UK :
Manchester University Press
2020
Manchester, UK : 2009. [2020] |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430305006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- 1. From the Sétif massacre to the November insurrection: the origins of the Algerian women’s movement, 1945-54
- 2. The origins of the emancipation campaign, November 1954 to May 1958
- 3. Unveiling: the ‘revolutionary journées’ of 13 May 1958
- 4. The propaganda offensive and the strategy of contact
- 5. The Mouvement de Solidarité Féminine: army wives and domesticating the ‘native’
- 6. Military ‘pacification’ and the women of Bordj Okhriss
- 7. The Mobile Socio-Medical Teams (EMSI): making contact with peasant society
- 8. The battle over the personal status law of 1959
- 9. The FLN and the role of women during the war
- 10. From women’s radical nationalism to the restoration of patriarchy (1959-62)
- 11. The post-independence state and the conservative marginalisation of women
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.
