Women and Resistance in the Maghreb

Studies women's resistance in the three countries of the Maghreb, concentrating on: What has been the role of women artists since the 1960s in unlocking traditions and emancipating women on their own terms? Why have Maghrebi women rarely been given the right to be heard since Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia gained national independence?

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Nabil Boudraa is a Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Oregon State University. Nabil has published several books and articles on various topics, including Kateb Yacine, Algerian cinema, Berber oral tradition, Albert Camus, the language issue in the Maghreb, and poetry, among other themes.

Joseph Ohmann Krause is a Professor Emeritus of French at Oregon State University. Co-editor of the journal Pacifica: Poetry International, he is the author of nine collections of poetry and the recipient, with Nabil Boudraa,of major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support teaching and scholarship on North Africa. His photography and poetry have been the objects of several exhibits.

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Introduction Nabil Boudraa and Joseph Krause Part I: Women and Political Transformations in the Maghreb 1. Tunisian Women Transform the Public Sphere: Cultural Identity and the State Laura Rice and Karim Hamdy 2. Keid El-Nisai (Women's Cunning): Feminist Deployment of a Patriarchal Trope Angelica Maria DeAngelis 3. Constructing North Africa: The Role of Berber Women Fatima Sadiqi 4. Women's Resistance and Gender Relations in Post-Arab Spring *North Africa Moha Ennaji 5. Forbidden Histories: Gender, Memory, and Reconciliation in Leila Kilani's Nos Lieux InterditsPatricia Goldsworthy* Part II: Women's Resistance and Literary, Cinematic, and Artistic Expressions* 6. Female Tricksters in Mihileanu's La Source des Femmes and Kassari's L'Enfant endormiChrista Catherine Jones 7. Grieving Mothers and Vengeful Gods: Djamila Sahraoui's Yema and the Rebuilding of Modern Algeria Rima Abunasser 8. "Look Who's Laughing Now": A Comparative Study of Maghrebi Women Cartoonists Diya Abdo and Maria Bobroff 9. Denouncing State Complicity in Prostitution: Activism and Resistance in Nabil Ayouch's Film Much Loved (2015) and Laila Lalami's Novel Secret Son (2009) Roxana Cazan 10. Algerian Women Filmmakers and their Resistance to Islamic Fundamentalism: Seven Landmark Films on the Struggle of women in the 1990s Ahmed Bedjaoui*