Algerian girls experienced only two life stages, omitting the Western period of puberty

Evidence

The girl who reaches puberty in Algeria and does not marry prolongs an abnormal situation. It must never be forgotten that the illiteracy and the unemployment that prevail in Algeria leave the girl no other solution. In a douar, the unmarried woman—and a girl becomes a woman at sixteen—must marry. Considered a minor indefinitely, the woman owes it to herself to find a husband as soon as possible, and the father is haunted by the fear of dying and abandoning his daughter without support and therefore unable to survive. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 363 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Illiteracy and unemployment forced Algerian girls into early marriage — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 363; Colonized Algerians rejected the radio without any organized resistance, contradicting Western sociological explanations; Many similar articles to Booth’s story have been written by women such as Theresa Corbin, a white convert living in New Orleans, Louisiana. Corbin wrote an article in 2014 for CNN titled “I’m a Feminist and I Converted to Islam.” Even the title of Corbin’s article addresses the Western misperception that feminism and Islam must be mutually exclusive. Like Booth, Corbin also admits to false notions about “oppressed” Muslim women. However, she came to realize that “Islam turned out to be the religion that appealed to [her] feminist ideals.” On the whole, Western audiences struggle to grasp the appeal of Islam for young white women such as Booth and Corbin. Even more shock is expressed at young American girls joining ISIS. According to a report from New America, one in seven American ISIS converts are women. 30% of these female converts are teenagers (Paquette 2015). Marie Saltman, a researcher at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, noted that female ISIS converts “are denying being sexual objects of the West…they refuse to be objectified. They use the veil so they cannot be sexualized” (Paquette 2015). Female Muslim converts refuse to be sexualized by Western society and thus don the veil as an emancipatory act of protection against the male gaze and mass consumption of female bodies in the public sphere.

Related

• Illiteracy and unemployment forced Algerian girls into early marriage (similarity 0.86)
• Many similar articles to Booth’s story have been written by women such as Theresa Corbin, a white convert living in New Orleans, Louisiana. Corbin wrote an article in 2014 for CNN titled I’m a… (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Colonized Algerians rejected the radio without any organized resistance, contradicting Western sociological explanations #expands (0.75)
• Illiteracy and unemployment forced Algerian girls into early marriage #expands (0.65) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 363
• Many similar articles to Booth’s story have been written by women such as Theresa Corbin, a white convert living in New Orleans, Louisiana. Corbin wrote an article in 2014 for CNN titled I’m a… #corroborates (0.45)