Algerian National Liberation and Gender Roles: female Participation on Independence War and the Construction of Women in the Post-Colonial State
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https://doi.org/10.30612/rmufgd.v13i26.16990Keywords:
Algerian National Liberation, Algerian Feminist Movement, Gender rolesAbstract
This paper aims to analyze social construction of gender roles in Algerian society during National Liberation. It seeks, through a postcolonial feminist perspective, to understand which gender representations were constructed during the independence war and how female agency took place in the liberation movement and on the construction of the Algerian State. It assumes that female participation in the independence was not only empirical, but also symbolic, insofar as a series of gender roles were developed around the condition of Algerian women used in both nationalist and colonial campaigns. These roles and spaces remained in dispute throughout national liberation. The paper also seeks to understand how militant women used these representations and social roles to act politically and insert themselves in the public space.
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