The Eloquence of Silence: Algerian Women in Question

ISBN-13: 9781138293274 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 254 str.

Marnia Lazreg

Opis

The Eloquence of Silence, first published in 1994, is considered a seminal text in the scholarship of women and North Africa. This new edition is thoroughly updated throughout to connect the original material to major political disruptions in the 21^st Century, such as the 9/11 attacks on New York and events around the "Arab Spring". In doing so, the book reveals how present circumstances for Algerian women remain dependent on national, regional as well as global decision-making and processes.

Spis treści

Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. Decolonizing Feminism 2. Women in Precolonial Algeria 3. The Colonial War in Fact and Fancy 4. Exposing and Reconstructing Algerian Identity 5. Reform and Resistance 6. Women’s Lived Reality in and Under Colonial Society 7. Nationalism, Decolonization and Gender 8. State Policy, Development and Women: Socialism and Its Demise 9. Consciousness, Culture and Change 10. Women’s Rise to the Word 11. Between God and Man 12. Conclusion,  Glossary, References, Index

O autorze

Marnia Lazreg is Professor of Sociology at Hunter College, CUNY, USA. Her research interests span constructions of otherness, colonial history, cultural movements, international development, women in the Middle East and North Africa, and postmodernist social theory. She has lectured extensively around the world and participated in radio and television programs. Her most recent publications include Foucault’s Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan (2017), Questioning the Veil: Open Letters to Muslim Women (2010), and Torture and The Twilight of Empire: Form Algiers to Baghdad (2017).