Our Fighting Sisters: Nation, Memory and Gender in Algeria, 1954-2012
Title | Our Fighting Sisters: Nation, Memory and Gender in Algeria, 1954-2012 |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2015 |
Authors | Vince, Natalya |
Number of Pages | 274 |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
City | Manchester |
Abstract | Between 1954 and 1962, Algerian women played a major role in the struggle to end French rule in one of the twentieth century's most violent wars of decolonisation. This is the first in-depth exploration of what happened to these women after independence in 1962. Based on new oral history interviews with women who participated in the war in a wide range of roles, from urban bombers to members of the rural guerrilla support network, it explores how female veterans viewed the post-independence state and its multiple discourses on 'the Algerian woman' in the fifty years following 1962. It also examines how these former combatants' memories of the anti-colonial conflict intertwine with, contradict or coexist alongside the state-sponsored narrative of the war constructed after independence. |
URL | https://manchester.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.7228/manchester/9780719091070.001.0001/upso-9780719091070 |
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- War & Colonialism/Imperialism & Women/Femininity
- War & Anti-colonial Struggle & Women/Femininity
- War, Violence & Women/Femininity
- Postwar Societies & Women/Femininity
- War Memories & Women/Femininity
- War & Nation/Nation-building & Women/Femininity
- Guerilla and Partisan Warfare, (Military) Resistance & Gender
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