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A Frenchwoman's imperial story : Madame Luce in nineteenth-century Algeria /
Eugénie Luce was a French schoolteacher who fled her husband and abandoned her family, migrating to Algeria in the early 1830s. By the mid-1840s she had become a major figure in debates around educational policies, insisting that women were a critical dimension of the French effort to effect a fusi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Palo Alto :
Stanford University Press,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Figures; Acknowledgments; A Note on Terminology; Introduction; Part I. Reconstructing a Woman's Life; 1. Growing up in Provincial France (1804-1832); 2. Early Years in Algeria (1832-1845); Part II. Women in the Civilizing Mission; 3. A Mission to Civilize (1845-1850); 4. Schooling Muslim Girls (1850-1857); 5. From Book Learning to Embroidery: Reorienting the Civilizing Mission (1857-1875); Part III. Historical and Cultural Legacies; 6. Imperial Narratives: Feminists and Travelers Tell Their Tales (1857-1900); 7. The Remains of the Day (1875-1915); Conclusion; Notes.