ÿþ<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>TravellingConcepts.net: Diaspora</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <meta name="keywords" content="" /> <meta name="description" content="" /> <style type="text/css"> <!-- .style1 {font-size: 18px} .style3 {font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif} a:link {color:#993300;text-decoration:none;} a:visited {color:#993300;text-decoration:none;} a:hover {color:#ff6600;text-decoration:underline;} a:active {color:#ff6600;text-decoration:underline;} --> </style> </head> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" > <div align="center"> <BR> <TABLE BORDER="5" WIDTH="779px" HEIGHT="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" BGCOLOR="ffffff"> <tr> <td> <BR> <h3>Diaspora</h3> <HR> <table><tr><td width="35%" valign="top"> <P><B>click on author's name<BR>to read their paper</B></P> <br /> <a href="alonso1.html" title="">Josefina Bueno Alonso</a> </td> <td width="55%"> <P><B>indicative quote</B></P> <br> <DIV align="left"> <P>"Feminist theory is thus confronted with a social discourse which prevails in France and in other European countries which have a large Maghrebian population: the vindication of an identity different from the European hegemonic identity (Braidotti, 1994: 10), marked by belonging to a different religion and affected by difficulties of integration, xenophobia, etc. Consequently, women s discourse suffers from various internal and external tensions which make it more and more difficult to  be a woman ,  define oneself as a woman , and  identify oneself as a woman ... Another important point is the analysis of the gender perspective which may be arise from a fuller consideration of the situation of French Muslim women, meaning those born and brought up in France, and who possess full French citizenship. In this case, the definition of gender conflicts with the acceptance of the  Other , from an ethnic perspective." <em>Josefina Bueno Alonso</em> </P> <BR> &nbsp; <BR> </td> <TD width="10%" > &nbsp; </TD> </tr></table> </body> </html>