Neil Macmaster

Burning the veil

The Algerian war and the 'emancipation' of Muslim women, 1954-62

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Produktbeschreibung

During the Algerian War the French army engaged in the 'emancipation' of Muslim women, to subvert the nationalist movement while inflicting widespread violence. This contradictory, catastrophic policy, as in contemporary Afghanistan and Iraq, revealed the failure of imposed Westernisation and triggered an Islamist backlash against women's rights.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780719087547
• ISBN-10: 0719087546
• Artikelnr.: 34558140

Autorenporträt

Neil MacMaster is Honorary Reader in the School of Political, Social and International Studies at the University of East Anglia

Inhaltsangabe

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