Joined by a fellow hot girl historian and survivor of honours Modern History modules, Mayu Sadler and Claire unpack the various roles Algerian women played in the 1954-62 Algerian War of Independence (only recognized as a war by the French in 1999... yikes!) and the shapeshifting identities of Algerian women related to veiling, unveiling, and guerilla warfare, Frantz Fanon, and the struggle for these women's histories to be written and showcased from the archives. Other topics include the Student Association elections, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, snow in Africa, and female hysteria! 

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TW: episode includes mention of rape, torture, and violence under colonial rule 

Bibliography and further reading: 

Daniele Djamila Amrane-Minne, Farida Abu-Haidar, ‘Women and Politics in Algeria from the War of Independence to Our Day’, Research in African Literatures, 30:3 (Autumn 1999), pp.62-77.

Mildred Mortimer, ‘Tortured bodies, resilient souls: Algeria’s women combatants depicted by Danieele Djamila Amrane-Minne, Lousette Ighilahriz, and Assia Djebar, Research in African Literature, 43:1 (Spring 2012), pp.101-117.

Catherine Sawers, ‘The women of Bataille d’Alger: Hearts and Minds and Bombs’, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, 10:2, (Spring 2014), pp.80-106.

Micheala C. Petruso, ‘Propaganda, Nationalism, and Feminism: Algerian Women in the French-Algerian War, (BPhil, University of Pittsburgh, 2020).

Lincoln Krause, ‘Rock the Casbah: tales of a female bomber’, War on the Rocks, March 7th 2018, [https://warontherocks.com/2018/03/rock-the-casbah-tales-of-a-female-bomber/]

Donald Reid, ‘Re-viewing The Battler of Algiers with Zohra Drif, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Fiction and Film for Schoalrs of France, [https://h-france.net/fffh/reviews/re-viewing-the-battle-of-algiers-with-zohra-drif/]

Ghania Mouffok, ‘Djamila Bouhired: Algerian Women between Glory and Contempt’, Assafir Al-Arabi, 21/12/2021, [https://assafirarabi.com/en/42861/2022/01/10/djamila-bouhired-algerian-women-between-glory-and-contempt/]

Shiera S. el-Malik, ‘Intellectual work ‘In the world’: Women’s writing and anti-Colonial thought in Africa, Irish studies in International Affairs, 24, 2013, pp.101-120

Jacqueline Couti, ‘Am I My Sister’s Keeper? The Politics of Propriety and the Fight for Equality in the Works of French Antillean Women Writers, 1920s-40s’, in Felix Germain, Silyane Larcher, Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848-2016’, (Nebraska, 2018), pp.129-144

Jennifer Anne Biottin, ‘”Are you trying to play a White Woman?” La Mere Patrie and the Female Body in French West Africa’, Signs, 40:4 (Summer 2015), pp. 841-864.