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The Eloquence of Silence - Algerian Women in Question (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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The Eloquence of Silence - Algerian Women in Question (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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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.
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