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A collection of picture postcards of Algerian women exploited by the French, this "album" illustrates a powerful analysis of the distorting, denigrating effects of their presence on Algerian Society.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Alloula, Malek (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1986.
Series:Theory and history of literature ; v. 21.
Subjects:
Geschichte 1900-1930.
Harems.
Photography of women.
Postcards > Algeria.
Women > Algeria > Social conditions.
Photographie des femmes.
Cartes postales > Algérie.
Femmes > Algérie > Conditions sociales.
Harems (Femmes)
Photographie de femmes.
Algeria.
France.
colonialism.
harem.
postcards.
pictorial works (form)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Postcards.
Women > Social conditions.
Frauenbild
Women.
Social structure.
Social processes.
Algerien
Harems
Photography of women
Postcards > Algeria
Women > Social conditions > Algeria
Pictorial works (form)
History (form)
llustrated works.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; 1. The Orient as Stereotype and Phantasm; 2. Women from the Outside: Obstacle and Transparency; 3. Women's Prisons; 4. Women's Quarters; 5. Couples; 6. The Figures of the Harem: Dress and Jewelry; 7. Inside the Harem: The Rituals; 8. Song and Dance: Almehs and Bayaderes; 9. Oriental Sapphism; 10. The Colonial Harem: Images of a Suberoticism; Notes; Selected Bibliography.

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