Marnia Lazreg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685967 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marnia Lazreg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marnia |
| FAMILY NAME | Lazreg |
| SIGNATURE | LAZREG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hunter College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon
The Limitations of Using Women as a Lever of Development
Bourdieu in Question
Feminism and Difference
Difference, in general, whether cultural, ethnic, or racial, has been a stumbling block for Western social science from its very inception. Nineteenth-century European ethnology and anthropology were established precisely to study different peoples and their institutions. However, regardless of the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological inadequacies and uncertainties in the works of many classical anthropologists and ethnologists, their inte…
Foucault's Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, from Tunisia to Japan
Foucault lived in Tunisia for two years and travelled to Japan and Iran more than once. Yet throughout his critical scholarship, he insisted that the cultures of the “Orient” constitute the “limit” of Western rationality. Using archival research supplemented by interviews with key scholars in Tunisia, Japan and France, this book examines the philosophical sources, evolution as well as contradictions of Foucault’s experience with non-Western cultu…
Foucault's Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan
Handbook of Sociology and Human Rights
Poststructuralist theory and women in the Middle East: Going in circles
This article examines the effects of the uncritical use of the poststructuralist Foucauldian theoretical approach on studies of Middle Eastern women and gender. Focusing on the twin concepts of ‘empowerment’ and ‘resistance’ as they have been applied to account for the re-veiling trend among Muslim countries and communities, it explores the epistemic transformation of the explanation of this trend into its justification. It further provides an ex…
Forced Marriage: Introducing a Social Justice and Human Rights Perspective
Up for Grabs: Writing Women in the Middle East
The social upheavals which recently took place in a number of North African and Mid dle Eastern societies have shattered the myth of passive populations subjected to autocrat ic rule by leaders who draw their legitimacy from the support of Western geopolitical interests in a post-Cold War era focused on the management of global security and pre emptive wars. These events should be an opportunity for social scientists, especially those studying wo…
Mirror, Mirror, Tell Me Who I Am: Colonial Empire and French Identity
This essay analyzes the pitfalls of the adoption of postcolonial studies by French colonial historians and traces their roots to a deep-seated identity investment in the colonial empire, especially Algeria. It examines French colonial historiography's elision of racism as a willed attempt at maintaining the wholeness of imperial identity (after the loss of empire) rather than a pathological condition of aphasia. The essay argues that French imper…
Féminisme et différence: Les dangers d'écrire en tant que femme sur les femmes en Algérie
Le désir de démanteler l’ordre existant et de le reconstruire pour le faire correspondre à ses propres besoins est au cœur du projet féministe, en Orient comme en Occident. Ce désir est parfaitement exprimé par le cri d’Omar Khayyam : Ah l’amour ! Puissions-nous conspirer avec le Destin Pour comprendre la marche de ce triste monde, Nous le réduirions en poussière – pour alors Le refaire, selon les désirs de notre cœur. Cependant, les féministes, …
Questioning the Veil: Open Letters to Muslim Women
Across much of the world today, Muslim women of all ages are increasingly choosing to wear the veil. Is this trend a sign of rising piety or a way of asserting Muslim pride? And does the veil really provide women freedom from sexual harassment? Written in the form of letters addressing all those interested in this issue, Questioning the Veil examines the inconsistent and inadequate reasons given for the veil, and points to the dangers and limitat…
Discussing Torture
Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad
Torture and the Twilight of Empire looks at the intimate relationship between torture and colonial domination through a close examination of the French army's coercive tactics during the Algerian war from 1954 to 1962. By tracing the psychological, cultural, and political meanings of torture at the end of the French empire, Marnia Lazreg also sheds new light on the United States and its recourse to torture in Iraq and Afghanistan. This book is no…
Making the Transition Work for Women in Europe and Central Asia
No AccessWorld Bank Discussion Papers12 Aug 2013Making the Transition Work for Women in Europe and Central AsiaAuthors/Editors: Marnia LazregMarnia Lazreghttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-4662-8SectionsAboutPDF (0.8 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:This report presents selected papers from the proceedings of the World Bank conference " Making the Transition Work for Women in Europe and…
Women and Men in Late Eighteenth-Century Egypt
The eloquence of silence: Algerian women in question
Simone de Beauvoir . Deirdre Bair Beyond "The Second Sex" . Peggy Reeves Sanday , Ruth Gallagher Goodenough
America Rides on Woman's Body
Gender and Politics in Algeria: Unraveling the Religious Paradigm
Feminism and Difference: The Perils of Writing as a Woman on Women in Algeria
However, feminists, East and West, differ in the grasp they have on this sorry scheme of and the tools they use to shatter it to bits. They also differ as to whether the process of remolding things can take place at all. Indeed, Western academic feminists can rediscover their womanhood, attempt to redefine it, and produce their own knowledge of themselves hampered only by what many perceive as male domination.2 Ultimately, Western feminists opera…
Bargaining for Reality. The Construction of Social Relations in a Muslim Community
The Persistence of Patriarchy: Class, Gender, and Ideology in Twentieth Century Algeria
Bureaucracy and class: The Algerian dialectic
Feminism and Difference: The Perils of Writing as a Woman on Women in Algeria
However, feminists, East and West, differ in the grasp they have on this sorry scheme of and the tools they use to shatter it to bits. They also differ as to whether the process of remolding things can take place at all. Indeed, Western academic feminists can rediscover their womanhood, attempt to redefine it, and produce their own knowledge of themselves hampered only by what many perceive as male domination.2 Ultimately, Western feminists opera…
Gender and Politics in Algeria: Unraveling the Religious Paradigm
Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon
Poststructuralist theory and women in the Middle East: Going in circles
This article examines the effects of the uncritical use of the poststructuralist Foucauldian theoretical approach on studies of Middle Eastern women and gender. Focusing on the twin concepts of ‘empowerment’ and ‘resistance’ as they have been applied to account for the re-veiling trend among Muslim countries and communities, it explores the epistemic transformation of the explanation of this trend into its justification. It further provides an ex…
Forced Marriage: Introducing a Social Justice and Human Rights Perspective
Workers' Self-Management in Algeria
Bureaucracy and class: The Algerian dialectic
Feminism and Difference: The Perils of Writing as a Woman on Women in Algeria
However, feminists, East and West, differ in the grasp they have on this sorry scheme of and the tools they use to shatter it to bits. They also differ as to whether the process of remolding things can take place at all. Indeed, Western academic feminists can rediscover their womanhood, attempt to redefine it, and produce their own knowledge of themselves hampered only by what many perceive as male domination.2 Ultimately, Western feminists opera…
Bargaining for Reality. The Construction of Social Relations in a Muslim Community
The Persistence of Patriarchy: Class, Gender, and Ideology in Twentieth Century Algeria
America Rides on Woman's Body
Gender and Politics in Algeria: Unraveling the Religious Paradigm
Simone de Beauvoir . Deirdre Bair Beyond "The Second Sex" . Peggy Reeves Sanday , Ruth Gallagher Goodenough
The eloquence of silence: Algerian women in question
Women and Men in Late Eighteenth-Century Egypt
Making the Transition Work for Women in Europe and Central Asia
No AccessWorld Bank Discussion Papers12 Aug 2013Making the Transition Work for Women in Europe and Central AsiaAuthors/Editors: Marnia LazregMarnia Lazreghttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-4662-8SectionsAboutPDF (0.8 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:This report presents selected papers from the proceedings of the World Bank conference " Making the Transition Work for Women in Europe and…
Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad
Torture and the Twilight of Empire looks at the intimate relationship between torture and colonial domination through a close examination of the French army's coercive tactics during the Algerian war from 1954 to 1962. By tracing the psychological, cultural, and political meanings of torture at the end of the French empire, Marnia Lazreg also sheds new light on the United States and its recourse to torture in Iraq and Afghanistan. This book is no…
Questioning the Veil: Open Letters to Muslim Women
Across much of the world today, Muslim women of all ages are increasingly choosing to wear the veil. Is this trend a sign of rising piety or a way of asserting Muslim pride? And does the veil really provide women freedom from sexual harassment? Written in the form of letters addressing all those interested in this issue, Questioning the Veil examines the inconsistent and inadequate reasons given for the veil, and points to the dangers and limitat…
Discussing Torture
Féminisme et différence: Les dangers d'écrire en tant que femme sur les femmes en Algérie
Le désir de démanteler l’ordre existant et de le reconstruire pour le faire correspondre à ses propres besoins est au cœur du projet féministe, en Orient comme en Occident. Ce désir est parfaitement exprimé par le cri d’Omar Khayyam : Ah l’amour ! Puissions-nous conspirer avec le Destin Pour comprendre la marche de ce triste monde, Nous le réduirions en poussière – pour alors Le refaire, selon les désirs de notre cœur. Cependant, les féministes, …
Mirror, Mirror, Tell Me Who I Am: Colonial Empire and French Identity
This essay analyzes the pitfalls of the adoption of postcolonial studies by French colonial historians and traces their roots to a deep-seated identity investment in the colonial empire, especially Algeria. It examines French colonial historiography's elision of racism as a willed attempt at maintaining the wholeness of imperial identity (after the loss of empire) rather than a pathological condition of aphasia. The essay argues that French imper…
Up for Grabs: Writing Women in the Middle East
The social upheavals which recently took place in a number of North African and Mid dle Eastern societies have shattered the myth of passive populations subjected to autocrat ic rule by leaders who draw their legitimacy from the support of Western geopolitical interests in a post-Cold War era focused on the management of global security and pre emptive wars. These events should be an opportunity for social scientists, especially those studying wo…
Poststructuralist theory and women in the Middle East: Going in circles
This article examines the effects of the uncritical use of the poststructuralist Foucauldian theoretical approach on studies of Middle Eastern women and gender. Focusing on the twin concepts of ‘empowerment’ and ‘resistance’ as they have been applied to account for the re-veiling trend among Muslim countries and communities, it explores the epistemic transformation of the explanation of this trend into its justification. It further provides an ex…
Forced Marriage: Introducing a Social Justice and Human Rights Perspective
Handbook of Sociology and Human Rights
Foucault's Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, from Tunisia to Japan
Foucault lived in Tunisia for two years and travelled to Japan and Iran more than once. Yet throughout his critical scholarship, he insisted that the cultures of the “Orient” constitute the “limit” of Western rationality. Using archival research supplemented by interviews with key scholars in Tunisia, Japan and France, this book examines the philosophical sources, evolution as well as contradictions of Foucault’s experience with non-Western cultu…
Foucault's Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan
Feminism and Difference
Difference, in general, whether cultural, ethnic, or racial, has been a stumbling block for Western social science from its very inception. Nineteenth-century European ethnology and anthropology were established precisely to study different peoples and their institutions. However, regardless of the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological inadequacies and uncertainties in the works of many classical anthropologists and ethnologists, their inte…
Bourdieu in Question
Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (11 works) · History (9 works) · Islamic Studies and History (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works)