This article situates Simone de Beauvoir's involvement in the case of Djamila Boupacha, an FLN militant who was tortured by the French Army in 1960, in the context of the repeated revelations of torture in course of the Algerian War. Drawing on Beauvoir's writings on ethics and other contemporary denunciations of torture, the essay illuminates how Beauvoir worked to overcome wide-spread public “indifference.” By focusing public attention on the Army's sexually degrading treatment of Boupacha, Beauvoir figured torture as a source of feminine and feminizing national shame.
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Ethics and Violence
Simone de Beauvoir, Djamila Boupacha, and the Algerian War
Judith Surkis
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Jun 2010
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 38–55 (18 total)
Book Reviews
Richard Ivan Jobs, Judith Surkis, Laura Lee Downs, Nimisha Barton, and Kimberly A. Arkin
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Jun 2016
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- Book Review
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- 131–150 (20 total)