The Eloquence of Silence: Algerian Women in QuestionThe Eloquence of Silence provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of gender relations in Algeria from the pre-colonial era to the present. |
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix | 1 |
Women in Precolonial Algeria | 20 |
The Colonial War in Fact and Fancy | 36 |
Exposing and Reconstructing Algerian Identity | 51 |
Reform and Resistance | 80 |
Womens Lived Reality In and Under Colonial Society | 98 |
Nationalism Decolonization and Gender | 118 |
State Socialism Development and Women | 142 |
Consciousness Culture and Change | 166 |
Womens Rise to the Word | 195 |
Between God and Man | 209 |
Conclusion | 223 |
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