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Organising Across Borders: Algerian Women's Associations in a Period of Conflict.
- Source :
- Review of African Political Economy; Dec99, Vol. 26 Issue 82, p479, 12p
- Publication Year :
- 1999
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Abstract
- This article examines the consequences for political organisation of Algeria's sustained and bloody conflict. Women's right to public action has been fundamentally challenged in this virtual civil war, and they have been at the forefront of resistance to violence, in different forms of political action and at different levels of society. Religious fundamentalism raises important questions about the nature of the political and how it occupies public space, and behaviour in the household (particularly that of women) has become a matter of public struggle. Resistance to or organising against fundamentalism and violence in turn enters a debate about political rights. For these reasons, Algerian women's organisations probably present the most diverse aspects of Algerian associational life. Their experience has wide relevance because it is shared by women in other situations where religious fundamentalism combines with a patriarchal system to oppress them (Helie-Lucas, 1993). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ALGERIAN politics & government
CIVIL society
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03056244
- Volume :
- 26
- Issue :
- 82
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Review of African Political Economy
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 2713542
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03056249908704414