Breaking the Silence French Women's Voices from the Ghetto

Name: Breaking the Silence French Women's Voices from the Ghetto
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ISBN: 9780520246218

ISBN-10: 0520246217

ISBN-13: 9780520246218

Edition: 2006

Authors: Fadela Amara, Helen Harden Chenut, Sylvia Zappi

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Born in France to Algerian immigrant parents, Fadela Amara is a human rights activist who speaks with both a personal and collective voice. This book is a passionate account of her struggle to found the movement called "Ni putes ni soumises" (Neither whores nor doormats) aimed at shattering the law of silence about violence against women within the Muslim community. The questions Amara raises are part of a broader agenda that seeks to integrate French Muslims into contemporary French society. These issues also pose major political problems of national identity and the defense of a secular state. As France increasingly confronts ethnic tensions and the emergence of Muslim fundamentalism,…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/28/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 186
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



"The translation of Neither Whores Nor Doormats allows us, finally, to listen directly to the voices of Muslim women in France


Fadela Amara's book is at once autobiography, an analysis of the degradation of male-female relations in France's working-class suburbs, and an engrossing chronicle of a political movement


Helen Chenut's deft translation and comprehensive Introduction introduces us to the complex universe inhabited by young women of North African descent in contemporary France."