Notes
1For further discussion of these ideas see Kaye, Jacqueline, and Abdelhamid Zoubir (Citation1990) The Ambiguous Compromise: Language, Literature and National Identity in Algeria and Morocco. London: Routledge.
2By universal woman I refer to the feminine version of the classic liberal human subject, a construction which assumes that all women share common interests on the basis of their gender.
3This enumeration of categories of othered women is not an exhaustive list.
4See for example the 2010 issue (no 17) of Cahiers du CEDREF, an important French feminist periodical on gender and postcolonial perspectives.
5The full text of the seventeen demands can be accessed at: http://www.marchemondiale.org/revendications/cmicfolder.2006-01-13.7149178479/cmicarticle.2006-01-13.8582817191/en