Women Fight, Women Write: Texts on the Algerian War, Mildred Mortimer

Автор: McMaster Neil
Название: Burning the Veil: The Algerian War and the `Emancipation` of Muslim Women, 1954-62
ISBN: 0719087546 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780719087547
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Описание: During the Algerian War of decolonisation, French counter-insurgency specialists set out to 'emancipate' Muslim women from the veil, seclusion and perceived male oppression. The claimed French liberation was contradicted by the violence inflicted on women through rape, torture and destruction of villages. Burning the veil, the first study to draw upon sources from newly-opened archives explores the roots of this contradiction in the theory of 'revolutionary warfare', and the attempt to defeat the National Liberation Front (FLN) by penetrating the Muslim family, seen as a bastion of resistance.
The strategy was implemented through elaborate mass unveiling ceremonies, radio and cinema propaganda, women's circles, mobile health teams, implementation of the female franchise, and a progressive reform of Muslim family and marriage law. The FLN attempted to counter this policy through the propaganda representation of independent, heroic women who placed bombs or fought in guerrilla units. But this propaganda was belied by entrenched patriarchal structures and values, and the post-Independence regime, able to reject 'emancipation' of women as a colonial and Western intrusion, blocked reform for decades.
French 'emancipation', striking parallels with contemporary Afghanistan and Iraq, produced a backlash that led to deterioration in the social and political position of Muslim women. This analysis of how and why Western attempts to recreate Muslim women in its own image ended in catastrophe has contemporary relevance and will be important to students, postgraduates and academics engaged in the study of French and colonial history, feminism, counter-insurgency and contemporary Islam.

Автор: Murti, Kamakshi P.
Название: To veil or not to veil
ISBN: 3034308590 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783034308595
Издательство: Peter Lang
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Описание: This study explores the issue of gender and immigration in the national contexts of Germany and France, where the largest minority populations are from Turkey and North Africa. Works by OEzdamar, Senocak and Mokeddem and interviews with young Muslim women are considered in response to the demonization of the Islamic `other` within Europe.

Автор: Poole Leslie Kemp
Название: Saving Florida: Women`s Fight for the Environment in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 0813062322 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813062327
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: "Gives long-overdue recognition to the women who shaped the state's environmental movement and saved Florida's water, land, and quality of life from worse destruction."--Cynthia Barnett, author of Blue Revolution: Unmaking America's Water Crisis "Highlights the overlooked role of women in Florida's environmental leadership. This is an exciting, important book."--Buddy MacKay, former governor of Florida "A brilliant exposition of the varied types of talent it takes to fight the battles, wars and votes which must be undertaken if even a fraction of Florida's heritage is to be saved."--Victoria Tschinkel, vice chairperson, 1000 Friends of Florida "Shows how passionate, strong minded, independent women did what was necessary to change the hearts and minds of policy makers to keep our air and water healthy."--Clay Henderson, former president, Florida Audubon Society "Poole's portraits of these indomitable women, many of them previously unknown, could well inspire the next generation of activists."--Judith G. Poucher, author of State of Defiance: Challenging the Johns Committee's Assault on Civil Liberties

Florida is renowned for its beautiful beaches, natural springs, and subtropical wilderness, but it is widely joked that the official bird should be the construction crane. Dredge-and-fill projects, air pollution, and pesticides spread so uncontrollably during the twentieth century that they sparked an environmental movement within the state, and those who led the fight were very often women.

Автор: Pears Pamela A.
Название: Front Cover Iconography and Algerian Women`s Writing
ISBN: 073919836X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739198360
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: The front covers of books written by Algerian women serve as the primary source of investigation in Front Cover Iconography and Algerian Women Writers. These covers have implications that extend beyond selling the book. What we see on one side of the page--or in this case, the cover, (recto) controls what we read on the reverse--in this case, the text itself (verso). Using theories of the paratext, including those of G rard Genette and Jonathan Gray, this book determines how four dominant iconographies used on the covers of Algerian women's writing - Orientalist art, the veil, the desert, and the author portrait - work with and against the texts they represent. These images have an impact on the initial reception of the book, but beyond that, book covers determine how both the informed and uninformed reader categorize and interpret francophone Algerian women's writing in France and beyond. As the covers help to sell the works, they also produce messages, represented via their iconographies that embed themselves into the texts. A sometimes explicit, and at the very least, implicit dialog between the visual paratextual representation and the written textual one is created: a dialog that extends beyond the life of the physical book to a sort of canonical paradigm for reading these authors' works. Thus, even if the cover image appears ephemeral, it never truly disappears. Its powerful control over critical reception and, ultimately, interpretation of francophone Algerian women's writing remains.

Автор: Mortimer, Mildred
Название: Women fight, women write
ISBN: 0813942055 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813942056
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Описание: Today, the ""fight to write""—the struggle to become the legitimate chronicler of one's own story—is being waged and won by women across mediums and borders. But such battles of authorship extend well beyond a single cultural moment.In her gripping study of unsung female narratives of the Algerian War, Mildred Mortimer excavates and explores the role of women's individual and collective memory in recording events of the violent anticolonial conflict. Presenting close readings of published works spanning five decades—from Assia Djebar's 1962 Children of the New World to Zohra Drif's 2014 Inside the Battle of Algiers: Memoir of a Woman Freedom Fighter— Women Fight, Women Write traces stylistic and material transformations in Algerian women's writings as it reveals evolving attitudes toward memory, trauma, historical objectivity, and women's political empowerment. Refuting the stale binary of men in battle, women at home, these testimonial texts let women lay claim to the Algerian War story as participants and also as chroniclers through fiction, historical studies, and memoir.Algeria's patriarchal norms long kept women from speaking publicly about private matters, silencing their experiences of the war. Still, the conflict has ceaselessly sparked creative work. The country's dark decade of violent struggle between the Algerian army and Islamist fundamentalists in the 1990s brought the liberation struggle back into focus, inspiring and emboldening many more women to defiantly write. Women Fight, Women Write advances the broken silence, illuminating its vital historical revisions and literary innovations.

Автор: Konstantinou, Ariadne,
Название: Female mobility and gendered space in ancient Greek myth
ISBN: 1474256767 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474256766
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Women's mobility is central to understanding cultural constructions of gender. Regarding ancient cultures, including ancient Greece, a re-evaluation of women's mobility within the household and beyond it is currently taking place. This invites an informed analysis of female mobility in Greek myth, under the premise that myth may open a venue to social ideology and the imaginary.

Female Mobility and Gendered Space in Ancient Greek Myth offers the first comprehensive analysis of this topic. It presents close readings of ancient texts, engaging with feminist thought and the 'mobility turn'. A variety of Olympian goddesses and mortal heroines are explored, and the analysis of their myths follows specific chronological considerations. Female mobility is presented in quite diverse ways in myth, reflecting cultural flexibility in imagining mobile goddesses and heroines. At the same time, the out-of-doors spaces that mortal heroines inhabit seem to lack a public or civic quality, with the heroines being contained behind 'glass walls'. In this respect, myth seems to reproduce the cultural limitations of ancient Greek social ideology on mobility, inviting us to reflect not only on the limits of mythic imagination but also on the timelessness of Greek myth.

Автор: Digioia, Amanda
Название: Childbirth and parenting in horror texts
ISBN: 1787148823 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787148826
Издательство: Emerald
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Описание: This book examines childbirth and parenting in horror texts. By analysing new texts, and re-analysing commonly used texts with new feminist methodology, this study provides a unique contribution to the fields of gender and horror studies.

Автор: Dooley Stacey
Название: On the Front Line with the Women Who Fight Back
ISBN: 1785942999 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781785942990
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: The Sunday Times bestsellerOver her ten years of documentary film making, Stacey Dooley has covered a wide variety of topics, from sex trafficking in Cambodia to Yazidi women fighting back in Syria.

Автор: Jessica Wilkerson
Название: To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice
ISBN: 0252042182 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780252042188
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Описание: Launched in 1964, the War on Poverty quickly took aim at the coalfields of southern Appalachia. There, the federal government found unexpected allies among working-class white women devoted to a local tradition of citizen caregiving and seasoned by decades of activism and community service.

Jessica Wilkerson tells their stories within the larger drama of efforts to enact change in the 1960s and 1970s. She shows white Appalachian women acting as leaders and soldiers in a grassroots war on poverty--shaping and sustaining programs, engaging in ideological debates, offering fresh visions of democratic participation, and facing personal political struggles. Their insistence that caregiving was valuable labor clashed with entrenched attitudes and rising criticisms of welfare. Their persistence, meanwhile, brought them into unlikely coalitions with black women, disabled miners, and others to fight for causes that ranged from poor people's rights to community health to unionization.

Inspiring yet sobering, To Live Here, You Have to Fight reveals Appalachian women as the indomitable caregivers of a region--and overlooked actors in the movements that defined their time.

Название: Women matter / femmes matiere
ISBN: 3034307888 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783034307888
Издательство: Peter Lang
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Описание: This volume explores the relationship between Francophone women and the material world. Topics include: the female body and objectification; contradictions of the im/materiality of the body; `the material` and women`s engagement with the economy; the relationship of the female body to material objects; cinematic representations of the female body.

Автор: Latinez, Alejandro
Название: Developments
ISBN: 1433119412 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433119415
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Описание: Developments: Encounters of Formation in the Latin American and Hispanic/Latino Bildungsroman, a notable contribution for students and scholars of Latin American, Brazilian, Hispanic and Latino literature, explores a significant but overlooked area in the literary production of the twentieth century: the connections between development and the narrative of formation after World War II. Recognizing development as a discursive construction that shapes significantly modern national identity in Latin America, Alejandro Latinez argues that its ideals and narrative relate to the Bildungsroman genre – the narrative of formation or development. The study presents a historical background of similar ideals of development in Latin America as well as reflects on a seminal philosophical interplay about youth and modern national identity between the Mexican authors Samuel Ramos and Octavio Paz. Furthermore, it examines Mario Vargas Llosa’s 1963 La ciudad y los perros, Jos? Lezama Lima’s 1966 Paradiso, a selection from Clarice Lispector’s 1960 and 1964 short narratives, and Elena Poniatowska’s 1971 testimony La noche de Tlatelolco. The narrative experience in the United States is analyzed in Sandra Cisnero’s 1984 The House on Mango Street and Esmeralda Santiago’s 1993 When I Was Puerto Rican.

Автор: Rita Catrina Imboden
Название: Cuerpo y poesia: Procesos de presentificacion del cuerpo en la lirica mexicana del siglo XX
ISBN: 3034311915 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783034311915
Издательство: Peter Lang
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Описание: Como la musica, la poesia actua de modo inmediato sobre el cuerpo y las emociones humanas. Su corporeidad sonora y ritmica esta estrechamente vinculada con la percepcion sensible del lector. A ello se agrega el aspecto visual del texto que, con la evolucion de la cultura escrita, dialoga con el cuerpo sonoro del poema y en ciertos autores modernos incluso llega a suplantarlo. Partiendo de una relacion intrinseca entre cuerpo y poesia, este estudio quiere mostrar como se hace presente el cuerpo humano en el poema, no solo como una figura representada en el nivel del contenido, sino tambien como huellas inscritas en el lenguaje y en la materialidad misma del texto. En la primera parte se desarrolla la metodologia para la descripcion y sistematizacion de las multiples relaciones entre la poesia y el cuerpo humano. En la segunda parte se ofrece un analisis detallado de la presencia del cuerpo en una serie de obras poeticas mexicanas del siglo XX, desde los Contemporaneos (Jose Gorostiza, Xavier Villaurrutia), pasando por Octavio Paz, la poesia conversacional de los anos 60 y 70 (Jose Emilio Pacheco, Rosario Castellanos) y el verso neorromantico de Jose Carlos Becerra, hasta llegar a dos poetas de la actualidad, Coral Bracho y Gloria Gervitz.