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      Organising across borders: Algerian women's associations in a period of conflict

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            Abstract

            In Muslim contexts of modernity, women's corporal visibility and citizenship rights constitute the political stakes around which the public sphere is defined. Women's visibility, women's mobility and women's voices are central in shaping the boundaries of the public sphere (Gole, 1997:61).

            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 politicaland 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).

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            crea20
            CREA
            Review of African Political Economy
            Review of African Political Economy
            0305-6244
            1740-1720
            December 1999
            : 26
            : 82
            : 479-490
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            a Queen Elizabeth House , International Development Centre , University of Oxford
            Article
            8704414 Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 26, No. 82, December 1999, pp. 479-490
            10.1080/03056249908704414
            8e53c51e-0645-49a6-b0d8-3bb86ad8332d

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            Sociology,Economic development,Political science,Labor & Demographic economics,Political economics,Africa

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            1. Pour 19–20 sept‐oct 1998 .

            2. Pour 19–20 sept‐oct 1998 .

            3. Statement of La Caravane de l'Espoir 1–31 October 1998 .

            4. 1998 ‘Des Republicaines Debout’ , Differences , Septembre .

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