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Title Women in the City in Algeria Change and Resistance
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/1887/17495
Date 2001
Author(s) Bekkar, R.
Abstract In the cities of the Arab world, the relationship between public and private is governed by a world of glances. It varies by situation - individual or collective, ritual or random, sacred or profane - and according to specific locations and events. The negotiation of boundaries is subject to those contingencies. Indeed, there is not a strict, systematic separation between the private sphere, a place where women can express themselves, and the public sphere, dominated by the words of men. Urban studies have shown that the relationship between home and outside is surprisingly complex and flexible. Nevertheless, the declension of space into thresholds and gradations in Arab cities is characterized by a social identification of men and women with spaces that are specific to them.
Subject(s) Algeria
Language en_US
Publisher ISIM, Leiden
Type of publication Article / Letter to editor
Format 166809 bytes; application/pdf
Source 7; 1; 27; 27; 1; ISIM Newsletter
Repository Leiden - University of Leiden
Added to C-A: 2012-06-05;15:21:25