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Editore: Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2012
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Paperback. 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. -- . 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Codice articolo 9780719087547
- Titolo
- Burning the Veil (Paperback)
- Autore
- Neil MacMaster
- Editore
- Manchester University Press, Manchester
- Anno di pubblicazione
- 2012
- Condizione
- new
- Rilegatura
- Paperback
- Lingua
- inglese
- ISBN 10
- 0719087546
- ISBN 13
- 9780719087547
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 backlash that led to deterioration in the social and political position of Muslim women. This analysis of how and why attempts to Westernise Muslim women ended in catastrophe has contemporary relevance and will be important to students and academics engaged in the study of French and colonial history, feminism and contemporary Islam.
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.
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Informazioni sull’autore
Neil MacMaster is Honorary Reader in the School of Political, Social and International Studies at the University of East Anglia
Neil MacMaster is Honorary Reader in the School of Political, Social and International Studies at the University of East Anglia
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