Agrarian production roles determine gender hierarchy within Algerian families
Evidence
Algerian society in the fight for liberation, in the sacrifices that it was willing to make in order to liberate itself from colonialism, renewed itself and developed new values governing sexual relations. The woman ceased to be a complement for man. She literally forged a new place for herself by her sheer strength. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 368 (
#complicates, via linked claim)
Involved in the struggle, the husband or the father learns to look upon the relations between the sexes in a new light. The militant man discovers the militant woman, and jointly they create new dimensions for Algerian society. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 252 (
#complicates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Joint political struggle restructured Algerian gender relations from within — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 252; Algerian liberation struggle itself forged new gender values preceding independence — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 368; Rural peasant families were more patriarchal than working-class families in the 1930s — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 560
Related
- Joint political struggle restructured Algerian gender relations from within (similarity 0.90)
- Algerian liberation struggle itself forged new gender values preceding independence (similarity 0.88)
- The Revolution dissolved patriarchal jealousy between Algerian men and women (similarity 0.87)
- Revolutionary struggle fused national liberation with women’s liberation in Algeria (similarity 0.86)
- National liberation opened up new roles for Algerian women (similarity 0.86)
- The revolution affected Algerian women’s lives more profoundly than any other domain (similarity 0.86)
- Armed revolutionary participation permanently transformed Algerian women’s self-identity and social role (similarity 0.86)
- Colonial ethnographers claimed a hidden matriarchy lay beneath visible Algerian patriarchy (similarity 0.85)
- Algerian women regrouped in camps turned displacement into revolutionary political organization (similarity 0.85)
- Martyred women militants replaced marriage as the model for Algerian female identity (similarity 0.84)
- Revolution transformed the Algerian couple from a family contract into a revolutionary unit (similarity 0.83)
- Algerian women’s militant action exceeded the resistance-fighter comparison (similarity 0.83)
- Colonial violence itself, not just revolutionary solidarity, reshaped Algerian feminine society (similarity 0.82)
- Militant women replaced marriageable women as aspirational models in Algeria (similarity 0.82)
- Algerian society was never the womanless society colonialists described (similarity 0.82)
Broader Connections
- Algerian liberation struggle itself forged new gender values preceding independence
#complicates(0.55) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 368 - Joint political struggle restructured Algerian gender relations from within
#complicates(0.50) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 252