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Burning the veil : the Algerian war and the 'emancipation' of Muslim women, 1954-62 / Neil MacMaster

Author
MacMaster, Neil, 1945-
Published
Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2009]
Copyright Date
©2009
Physical Description
xvi, 416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents
1. From the Serif 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 journees' of 13 May 1958 -- 4. The propaganda offensive and the strategy of contact -- 5. The Mouvement de solidarite feminine: 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.
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ISBN
9780719074738 (hbk.)
0719074738 (hbk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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