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Book SynopsisDuring 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
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
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