The colonial harem
Photography of women
Postcards
Muslim women
Social structure
Women, social conditions
Colonies
Femmes
Emigration and immigration
Conditions sociales
New York Times reviewed
Women
Social conditions
This provides a commentary on images, specifically on a series of French postcards depicting mainly eroticized "scenes from Algerian life" under colonial rule during the first three decades of this century (which Alloula calls the "Golden Age of the colonial postcard"). The aim is to address, to som…
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