دفاتر في اللسانيات والتعليمية
Volume 6, Numéro 1, Pages 198-218
2016-06-30
Mme Allix-luce School In The Writings Of British Women Travellers To Algeria: Barbara Smith- Bodichon As A Case Study
Authors : Seddiki Sadia . Riche Bouteldja .
Abstract
Madame Luce School for Muslim girls, which was founded in 1845 in Algiers and which dispensed a French-style education, became an obligatory stop for virtually every female English traveller to Algeria in the mid-nineteenth century. Madame Luce’s work and “civilising mission” was popularised thanks to the English feminist Barbara Smith-Leigh Bodichon, whose essay Women and Work (1857) introduced her to English readers. Bodichon paints an idealised image of a heroic and selfless woman who fought against all odds to introduce ‘ignorant’ and ‘illiterate’ Muslim women to modern education and paid work. Bodichon’s narrative is fraught with an imperialist rhetoric and superior overtones which romanticizes a European woman’s endeavour and overlooks the little Arab girls who literally fade into the shadow in her writings.
Keywords
Mme Allix-Luce School- British Women Travellers to Algeria
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