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Women and Resistance in the Maghreb Nabil Boudraa

Women and Resistance in the Maghreb By Nabil Boudraa

Women and Resistance in the Maghreb by Nabil Boudraa


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Summary

Studies women's resistance in the three countries of the Maghreb, concentrating on: What has been the role of women artists since the 1960s in unlocking traditions and emancipating women on their own terms? Why have Maghrebi women rarely been given the right to be heard since Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia gained national independence?

Women and Resistance in the Maghreb Summary

Women and Resistance in the Maghreb: Remembering Kahina by Nabil Boudraa

  1. Perhaps the first book in English on this topic of Maghrebi women that gathers several disciplines.
  2. This book brings to the fore some hidden aspects of Maghrebi feminism
  3. Some of the chapters cover new issues that have not been examined yet.
  4. The variety of periods and discipline sin this book allow for a coherent and general understanding of Maghrebi societies since decolonization.
  5. Some chapters are by contributors whose work is known worldwide.

About Nabil Boudraa

Nabil Boudraa is a Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Oregon State University. Nabil has published several books and articles on various topics, including Kateb Yacine, Algerian cinema, Berber oral tradition, Albert Camus, the language issue in the Maghreb, and poetry, among other themes.

Joseph Ohmann Krause is a Professor Emeritus of French at Oregon State University. Co-editor of the journal Pacifica: Poetry International, he is the author of nine collections of poetry and the recipient, with Nabil Boudraa,of major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support teaching and scholarship on North Africa. His photography and poetry have been the objects of several exhibits.

Table of Contents

Introduction Nabil Boudraa and Joseph Krause Part I: Women and Political Transformations in the Maghreb 1. Tunisian Women Transform the Public Sphere: Cultural Identity and the State Laura Rice and Karim Hamdy 2. Keid El-Nisai (Women's Cunning): Feminist Deployment of a Patriarchal Trope Angelica Maria DeAngelis 3. Constructing North Africa: The Role of Berber Women Fatima Sadiqi 4. Women's Resistance and Gender Relations in Post-Arab Spring North Africa Moha Ennaji 5. Forbidden Histories: Gender, Memory, and Reconciliation in Leila Kilani's Nos Lieux Interdits Patricia Goldsworthy Part II: Women's Resistance and Literary, Cinematic, and Artistic Expressions 6. Female Tricksters in Mihaileanu's La Source des Femmes and Kassari's L'Enfant endormi Christa Catherine Jones 7. Grieving Mothers and Vengeful Gods: Djamila Sahraoui's Yema and the Rebuilding of Modern Algeria Rima Abunasser 8. Look Who's Laughing Now: A Comparative Study of Maghrebi Women Cartoonists Diya Abdo and Maria Bobroff 9. Denouncing State Complicity in Prostitution: Activism and Resistance in Nabil Ayouch's Film Much Loved (2015) and Laila Lalami's Novel Secret Son (2009) Roxana Cazan 10. Algerian Women Filmmakers and their Resistance to Islamic Fundamentalism: Seven Landmark Films on the Struggle of women in the 1990s Ahmed Bedjaoui

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NPB9780367490072
9780367490072
0367490072
Women and Resistance in the Maghreb: Remembering Kahina by Nabil Boudraa
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2021-07-30
236
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