Burning the veil : The Algerian war and the 'emancipation' of Muslim women, 1954-62
In May 1958, and four years into the Algerian War of Independence, a revolt again appropriated the revolutionary and republican symbolism of the French Revolution by seizing power through a Committee of Public Safety. This book explores why a repressive colonial system that had for over a century ma...
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Manchester University Press
2020
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