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 rape, torture and destruction of villages. This book examines the roots of this contradiction in the theory of 'revolutionary warfare', and the attempt to defeat the National Liberation Front by penetrating the Muslim family, seen as a bastion of resistance.Striking parallels with contemporary Afghanistan and Iraq, French 'emancipation' produced a bac…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Macmaster, Neil
- ISBN: 978-0-7190-8754-7
- EAN: 9780719087547
- Produktnummer: 12130755
- Verlag: Manchester University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 436 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.3 cm 658 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 658
Über den Autor
Neil MacMaster is Honorary Reader in the School of Political, Social and International Studies at the University of East Anglia
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