Burning the Veil: The Algerian War and the 'emancipation' of Muslim Women, 1954-62

by NeilMacmaster (Author)

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  2012

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  During the Algerian War the French army engaged in the 'emancipation' of Muslim women, to subvert the nationalist movement while inflicting widespread violence. This contradictory, catastrophic policy, as in contemporary Afghanistan and Iraq, revealed the failure of imposed Westernisation and triggered an Islamist backlash against women's rights. -- .