Burning the veil : the Algerian war and the 'emancipation' of Muslim women, 1954-62 /
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| Author / Creator: | MacMaster, Neil, 1945- |
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| Imprint: | Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. |
| Description: | xvi, 416 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7911100 |
Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations and tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Glossary
- 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