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4 Embodying the nation

Abstract

This chapter explores how the collective identity of the newly-independent nation was (re)imagined through women under Presidents Ahmed Ben Bella (1962-65) and Houari Boumediene (1965-78), though examining official speeches, nationality law, discourses about marriage and naming, the creation of the Union Nationale des Femmes Algériennes (National Union of Algerian Women, UNFA) and the selection of women to acts as ‘ambassadors’ for Algeria on the world stage. Challenging familiar visions of 1960s and 1970s Algeria as locked in a struggle between Arabo-Islamic ‘tradition’ and Socialist ‘modernity’, the chapter argues that a puritanical revolutionary fervour could fuse religious and cultural conservatism with the desire to build a socialist state, thus ‘making safe’ women’s entry into the public sphere. As a counterpoint to the obsession with women in official speeches, this chapter concludes with an exploration of how interviewees resisted ‘embodying the nation’ by insisting that they were gender-neutral citizens.

Abstract

This chapter explores how the collective identity of the newly-independent nation was (re)imagined through women under Presidents Ahmed Ben Bella (1962-65) and Houari Boumediene (1965-78), though examining official speeches, nationality law, discourses about marriage and naming, the creation of the Union Nationale des Femmes Algériennes (National Union of Algerian Women, UNFA) and the selection of women to acts as ‘ambassadors’ for Algeria on the world stage. Challenging familiar visions of 1960s and 1970s Algeria as locked in a struggle between Arabo-Islamic ‘tradition’ and Socialist ‘modernity’, the chapter argues that a puritanical revolutionary fervour could fuse religious and cultural conservatism with the desire to build a socialist state, thus ‘making safe’ women’s entry into the public sphere. As a counterpoint to the obsession with women in official speeches, this chapter concludes with an exploration of how interviewees resisted ‘embodying the nation’ by insisting that they were gender-neutral citizens.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Front matter i
  2. Dedication v
  3. Contents vii
  4. List of maps and figures viii
  5. Acknowledgements ix
  6. Abbreviations x
  7. Glossary of commonly used terms xvi
  8. Maps xviii
  9. Introduction 1
  10. 1 Nationalist genealogies 29
  11. 2 Heroines and victims, brothers and sisters 72
  12. 3 1962: Continuities and discontinuities 102
  13. 4 Embodying the nation 140
  14. 5 From national construction to new battles 180
  15. 6 Being remembered and forgotten 212
  16. Conclusion 252
  17. Appendix: Brief biographies of interviewees 257
  18. Select bibliography 261
  19. Index 268
Our fighting sisters
Ein Kapitel aus dem Buch Our fighting sisters
https://doi.org/10.7765/9780719098833.00013

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Front matter i
  2. Dedication v
  3. Contents vii
  4. List of maps and figures viii
  5. Acknowledgements ix
  6. Abbreviations x
  7. Glossary of commonly used terms xvi
  8. Maps xviii
  9. Introduction 1
  10. 1 Nationalist genealogies 29
  11. 2 Heroines and victims, brothers and sisters 72
  12. 3 1962: Continuities and discontinuities 102
  13. 4 Embodying the nation 140
  14. 5 From national construction to new battles 180
  15. 6 Being remembered and forgotten 212
  16. Conclusion 252
  17. Appendix: Brief biographies of interviewees 257
  18. Select bibliography 261
  19. Index 268
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