by Rahmouna Salah, Fatiha Maamoura · ISBN 9782353410842
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«Laissées pour mortes: le lynchage des femmes de Hassi Messaoud» is the testimony of Rahmouna Salah and Fatiha Maamoura, collected by Nadia Kaci.
Account of the attack on about fifty women in Hassi Messaoud (Algeria) in July 2001, when about five hundred men attacked them after a sermon by the imam. The authors, victims who took the case to court, also recount their childhood in patriarchal families, their marriages, repudiations and divorces and the struggle to live without male guardianship.
Published by Max Milo in 2010; 253 pages, in French. It is in the History category.
For readers interested in the contemporary history of Algeria, gender-based violence and the testimonies of women fighting for their rights.
