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Burning the veil The Algerian war and the 'emancipation' of Muslim women, 1954-62 /
In May 1958, and four years into the Algerian War of Independence, a revolt again appropriated the revolutionary and republican symbolism of the French Revolution by seizing power through a Committee of Public Safety. This book explores why a repressive colonial system that had for over a century ma...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[s.l.] :
Manchester University Press,
2020.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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.