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Author Lazreg, Marnia

Title The Eloquence of Silence : Algerian Women in Question
Edition 2nd ed
Published Milton : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (269 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Preface to the Second Edition; Introduction; Note; 1. Decolonizing Feminism; Identity Politics and Feminist Practice; Beyond the Religion Paradigm; Thinking Differently About Women; The Question of Method and Theory; Notes; 2. Women in Precolonial Algeria; Algerian Women in History; Gender Relations in Rural Algeria; The Nailiyat Case; The Case of the Azriyat; Notes; 3. The Colonial War in Fact and Fancy; Dehistoricizing Algerians; Imagining Women: Virgins Without Souls
The Flipside of Colonial FantasySocioeconomic Impact of the New Colonial Order; Social Instability and Women's Identity; Notes; 4. Exposing and Reconstructing Algerian Identity; Transforming Men into Women; Transforming Women into Prostitutes; Colonial Education and Men's Consciousness; Education Fit for Colonized Girls; Notes; 5. Reform and Resistance; A Cultural Answer to Socioeconomic Problems; Vagaries of Colonial Intervention in Natives' Family Law; Reforming Islamic Law; Debating the Woman Question in Public; Notes; 6. Women's Lived Reality In and Under Colonial Society
Women and the FamilyWomen's Speech and Time; Tales and Games; Magical Practices; Love and Masquerade; Catharsis; Notes; 7. Nationalism, Decolonization and Gender; Patterns of Entry into the Movement for Decolonization; Life as a Moudjahida; Fanon, Women and the Revolution; Sex and Revolution; French Reaction to Women's Militancy and Decolonization; Impact of the Revolution on Gender Relations; Nationalism and Feminism; Notes; 8. State Policy, Development and Women; Ben Bella's Feminizing Government; State, Women and Legitimation; The Family Code and Its Aftermath; Gendered Development
Population, Housing and WaterHumanizing Women's Work; Notes; 9. Consciousness, Culture and Change; Context of Cultural Change; Expressions of Cultural Change since 1962; Women and the Return of the Cultural Repressed; Mothers, Daughters and Time; Marriage, Divorce and Nostalgia; Women in Men's Imagination; Women's Ambivalence; Looking for a Husband; Notes; 10. Women's Rise to the Word; Academic Feminism; The Rise of the Women's Movement; Literary Expressions; Feminist Theory; French Appropriation of Feminism; Notes; 11. Between God and Man; Local Roots of the Faith-Based Movement
Social Foundations of the Faith-Based MovementThe Faith-Based Movement's Political Agenda; Women in an "Islamic" State: Political Myth and Violence; State, Political Mosque and Women; Women in the Post Civil War; Notes; Conclusion; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
Summary The Eloquence of Silence, first published in 1994, is considered a seminal text in the scholarship of women and North Africa. Marnia Lazreg makes a critical departure from more traditional studies of Algerian women, which usually examine female roles in relation to Islam - and instead takes an interdisciplinary approach, arguing that Algerian women's roles are shaped by a variety of structural and symbolic factors. These include colonial domination, demographic change, nationalism, family formation, the turn to culturalism, and the progressive shift to a capitalist economy. Grounded in archival research supplemented by interviews, and adopting a historico-critical method, the book identifies and examines the significance of an enduring feature of women's journey: their instrumental use as tropes in struggles between groups of men opposed to one another during political crises. It demonstrates that despite being central to contentious political issues, women's needs and aspirations were obscured just as their voices have traditionally been silenced. This new edition is thoroughly updated throughout to connect the original material to major political disruptions in the twenty-first century, such as the 9/11 attacks on New York and events around the "Arab Spring." The book foregrounds women's determination to forge ahead, as well as their activism, which led to progress in fighting rape and other forms of violence made banal in the wake of the civil war (1992-2002) It also calls for a "decolonization" of concepts and theoretical systems used in accounting for women's lived reality, and a questioning of facile postfeminist discourses in their manifold expressions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Algeria-Social conditions
Women in development-Algeria
Women-Algeria-Social conditions
Women -- Algeria -- Social conditions
Women in development -- Algeria
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Social conditions
Women in development
Women -- Social conditions
SUBJECT Algeria -- Social conditions
Subject Algeria
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