The Eloquence of Silence: Algerian Women in Question / Edition 1

by Marnia Lazreg, Lazreg Marnia

Overview

The Eloquence of Silence 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 look at the subject, arguing that Algerian women's roles are shaped by a variety of structural and symbolic factors. These elements include colonial domination, demographic change, nationalism, socialist development policy of the 1960s and 70s, family formation and the progressive shift to a capitalist economy.

Covering both pre-colonial and colonial eras as well as the independence period, this book focuses on the changes that took place in family structure and law, customs, education, and the war of decolonization as they affected gender relations. Marnia Lazreg approaches the post-colonial era through an examination of how Algeria's model of economic development, structural adjustment policies, and the rise of religious-political opposition affected women's lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415907316
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/27/1994
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years

About the Author

Marnia Lazreg is Professor of Sociology at Hunter College, CUNY, USA. Her research interests span constructions of otherness, colonial history, cultural movements, international development, women in the Middle East and North Africa, and postmodernist social theory. She has lectured extensively around the world and participated in radio and television programs. Her most recent publications include Foucault’s Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan (2017), Questioning the Veil: Open Letters to Muslim Women (2010), and Torture and The Twilight of Empire: Form Algiers to Baghdad (2017).

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Decolonizing Feminism 2. Women in Pre-Colonial Algeria 3. the Colonial War in Fact and Fancy 4. Exposing and Reconstrucing Algerian Identity 5. Reform and Resistance 6. Women's Lived Reality in and Under Colonial Society 7. Nationalism, Decolonization, and Gender 8. State, Socialism, Development and Women 9. Consciousness, Culture, and Change 10. Women's Rise to the Word 11. Between God and Man Conclusion Bibliography