{"product_id":"breaking-the-silence-french-womens-voices-from-the-ghetto-paperback","title":"Breaking the Silence: French Women's Voices from the Ghetto - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFadela Amara\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSylvia Zappi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHelen Chenut\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in France of Algerian parents, Fadela Amara is a human rights activist who speaks with both a personal and a collective voice. This book is a passionate account of her struggle to found the movement called \"Ni Putes Ni Soumises\" (Neither Whore Nor Submissive), aimed at shattering the law of silence about violence against women within French suburban communities. The questions Amara raises are part of a broader agenda to open contemporary French society to greater ethnic and cultural diversity. These issues also pose problems of national identity and the defense of secularism for the state.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs France increasingly confronts such tensions and the emergence of Islamic movements, French cities face problems of unemployment, racial and ethnic discrimination, and violence. Amara's eloquent call for social and gender equality underscores a host of interconnected issues, including France's colonial past and the degradation of the suburbs into ghettos that have progressively marginalized immigrant and working-class communities. Amara and her co-workers have challenged the French Republic's leaders using a strategy that champions republican secular values and stresses the language of universalism to advance individual rights. Women's rights are human rights, they argue, thus casting their demands for equality in terms of a broader struggle for democratic freedoms. Moving, candid, and timely, \u003ci\u003eBreaking the Silence\u003c\/i\u003e created a sensation when it was published in France. Fadela Amara is currently State Minister for Urban Affairs, charged with the rehabilitation of the very ghettos she describes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe translation of \u003ci\u003eBreaking the Silence\u003c\/i\u003e 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 shows us complex universe inhabited by young women of North African descent in contemporary France.--Susanna Barrows, author of \u003ci\u003eDrinking: Behavior and Belief in Modern History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book delivers a timely and evocative corrective to stereotypes of Muslim women. Amara discusses with sensitivity the complex gender position of Muslim women in a Western European country in which the conflict between liberal republican ideals and cultural norms has had particularly violent consequences for women. Chenut's fine translation brings Amara's words to life and her excellent introduction places the Muslim women's movement in the context of the racial and cultural tensions that plague France's \u003ci\u003ebanlieues\u003c\/i\u003e today.\"--Laura Levine Frader, co-editor, \u003ci\u003eGender and Class in Modern Europe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFadela Amara\u003c\/b\u003e is President of Ni Putes Ni Soumises, as well as the Fédération Nationale des Maisons des Potes, a network of associations working to structure civic, cultural, and social activities in suburban housing projects. \u003cb\u003eSylvia Zappi \u003c\/b\u003ewrites for \u003ci\u003eLe Monde\u003c\/i\u003e and is the coauthor of Our Spring in Winter (1986). \u003cb\u003eHelen Harden Chenut \u003c\/b\u003eis Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 186\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 8.74 x 5.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 28, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42723844816959,"sku":"9780520246218","price":75.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/5a71d48cb35930649d4a8386282972bc.webp?v=1765100580","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/breaking-the-silence-french-womens-voices-from-the-ghetto-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}