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Om de relaties tussen mannen en vrouwen in het Algerije van vandaag te begrijpen, gaat deze studie terug tot het prekoloniale Algerije. Aan bod komen de vele veranderingen in de rollen die vrouwen sindsdien hebben gespeeld, en de successen en de nederlagen in de strijd voor de emancipatie van de Algerijnse vrouw. De studie van de geschiedenis van de Algerijnse vrouwen levert kennis op die ook geldt voor andere gekoloniseerde gebieden in Afrika, en draagt belangrijke elementen aan voor de feministische discussie over de veelvormige ervaringswereld van de vrouw als 'de ander'.

Women in development --- Women --- Social conditions --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- History as a science --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- National movements --- Islam --- Developmental psychology --- Politics --- Colonisation. Decolonisation --- Law --- Community organization --- Algeria --- Feminism --- Family --- Identity --- Gender roles --- Colonialism --- Nationalism --- Oral history --- Political sciences --- Protest movement --- Images of women --- Women's movements --- Legislation --- Book --- Culture --- Decolonization

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Torture and the Twilight of Empire looks at the intimate relationship between torture and colonial domination through a close examination of the French army's coercive tactics during the Algerian war from 1954 to 1962. By tracing the psychological, cultural, and political meanings of torture at the end of the French empire, Marnia Lazreg also sheds new light on the United States and its recourse to torture in Iraq and Afghanistan. This book is nothing less than an anatomy of torture--its methods, justifications, functions, and consequences. Drawing extensively from archives, confessions by former torturers, interviews with former soldiers, and war diaries, as well as writings by Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and others, Lazreg argues that occupying nations justify their systematic use of torture as a regrettable but necessary means of saving Western civilization from those who challenge their rule. She shows how torture was central to guerre révolutionnaire, a French theory of modern warfare that called for total war against the subject population and which informed a pacification strategy founded on brutal psychological techniques borrowed from totalitarian movements. Lazreg seeks to understand torture's impact on the Algerian population--especially women--and also on the French troops who became their torturers. She explores the roles Christianity and Islam played in rationalizing these acts, and the ways in which torture became not only routine but even acceptable. Written by a preeminent historical sociologist, Torture and the Twilight of Empire holds particularly disturbing lessons for us today as we carry out the War on Terror.

Torture. --- Iraq War, 2003-2011 --- Torture --- Cruelty --- Punishment --- Extraordinary rendition --- Atrocities. --- History --- Abu Ghraib Prison. --- Baghdad Central Confinement Facility --- BCCF --- Muʻtaqal Abū Gharīb --- Sijn Abū Gharīb --- Muʻtaqal Abū Ghurayb --- Muʻtaqal Abū Ghurayyib --- معتقل ابو غريب --- سجن أبو غريب --- Algeria --- al-Dzāyīr --- al-Jazāʼir --- Algérie --- Algerien --- Algeriet --- Alg'eryah --- Algieria --- Algierska Republika Ludowo-Demokratyczna --- Alg'iryah --- Alzhir --- Alžir --- Argelia --- Cezayir --- Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria --- Democratic Republic of Algeria --- Dżumhurija al-Dżazajrija asz-Szaabija ad-Dimukratija --- Gouvernement général de l'Algérie --- Jumhūrīyah al-Jazāʼirīyah al-Dīmuqrāṭīyah wa-al-Shaʻbīyah --- Jumhūrīyah al Jazāʼirīyah ash Shaʻbīyah --- People's Democratic Republic of Algeria --- République algérienne démocratique et populaire --- אלג'יריה --- الجزائر‎ --- الدزاير --- Алжир --- Algeria (Provisional Government, 1958-1962)

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Foucault lived for two years in Tunisia and travelled to Japan and Iran more than once. Yet throughout his critical scholarship, he insisted that the cultures of the Orient and the Occident constitute the "limit" of Western rationality. Using interviews with scholars familiar with him from Tunisia and Japan, the book examines the manner in which Foucault experienced and explained his encounters with non-Western cultures.

East and West. --- East and West. --- Orientbild. --- Philosophical anthropology. --- Philosophical anthropology. --- Philosophische Anthropologie. --- Foucault, Michel, --- Foucault, Michel, --- Foucault, Michel, --- Japan. --- Tunisie.

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Labour market --- Developing countries: economic development problems --- Europe --- Central Asia

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Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Islam --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Algeria