Suchergebnisse

Genealogy of the Cultural Turn -- National Religion and Culture Chapter -- Maghrebin Islam and Its Gendered Functions -- The Management of Salafism and Women -- Islamic Feminism in the Shadow of Deradicalization -- Feminist Antecedent Knowledge and Women's Quranic Contextualism -- Postliberation and Quranic Attributor Contextualism.

Introduction -- Decolonizing feminism -- Women in precolonial Algeria -- The colonial war in fact and fancy -- Exposing and reconstructing Algerian identity -- Reform and resistance -- Women's lived reality in and under colonial society -- Nationalism, decolonization and gender -- State policy, development and women: socialism and its demise -- Consciousness, culture and change -- Women's rise to the word -- Between God and man -- Conclusion

This article examines the effects of the uncritical use of the poststructuralist Foucauldian theoretical approach on studies of Middle Eastern women and gender. Focusing on the twin concepts of 'empowerment' and 'resistance' as they have been applied to account for the re-veiling trend among Muslim countries and communities, it explores the epistemic transformation of the explanation of this trend into its justification. It further provides an example of a historicized application of Michel Foucault's conception of power.

This essay analyzes the pitfalls of the adoption of postcolonial studies by French colonial historians and traces their roots to a deep-seated identity investment in the colonial empire, especially Algeria. It examines French colonial historiography's elision of racism as a willed attempt at maintaining the wholeness of imperial identity (after the loss of empire) rather than a pathological condition of aphasia. The essay argues that French imperial identity is nurtured by education and state intervention in the production and reproduction of political culture.