Algerian women gained consultation in marriage choice and shed shame-based avoidance patterns

Evidence

Algerian women began at first to demand guarantees of the future husband’s patriotism. They would require that the young men who were being proposed to them be members of the F.L.N. The father’s unchallengeable and massive authority let itself be shaken by this new requirement. Before the Revolution, a girl who had been asked for as a wife would leave the family circle for several days and take refuge with relatives. This is explained by the shame felt by the girl at being the object of a sexual pursuit. It was also usual for the young bride to avoid appearing before her father for one or two months after the consummation of the marriage. These modest, infantile patterns of behavior disappeared with the Revolution and today the majority of young married women have themselves been present at the signature of their contract and have naturally been consulted as to their intended. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 383

Categorization

• XREF: Women demanding F.L.N. membership as a husband qualification parallels the reader’s theme of patriotism restructuring intimate social codes under colonial war. — connects to: The Revolution let love override customary paternal marriage authority in Algeria — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 381; The Revolution dissolved patriarchal jealousy between Algerian men and women; Joint political struggle restructured Algerian gender relations from within — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 252 (+1 more)

Related

• The Revolution let love override customary paternal marriage authority in Algeria (similarity 0.89)
• The Revolution dissolved patriarchal jealousy between Algerian men and women (similarity 0.87)
• The revolution affected Algerian women’s lives more profoundly than any other domain (similarity 0.86)
• Joint political struggle restructured Algerian gender relations from within (similarity 0.85)
• Revolution dissolved the Algerian husband’s traditional jealousy of his wife (similarity 0.85)
• Revolution transformed the Algerian couple from a family contract into a revolutionary unit (similarity 0.84)
• Armed revolutionary participation permanently transformed Algerian women’s self-identity and social role (similarity 0.84)
• The revolution redefined manly virility as patriotic combat for Algerian women (similarity 0.84)
• Revolutionary authority in Algeria replaced the elder brother’s automatic precedence (similarity 0.83)
• Algerian liberation struggle itself forged new gender values preceding independence (similarity 0.83)
• Revolutionary struggle fused national liberation with women’s liberation in Algeria (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial ethnographers claimed a hidden matriarchy lay beneath visible Algerian patriarchy (similarity 0.82)
• National liberation opened up new roles for Algerian women (similarity 0.82)
• Militant women replaced marriageable women as aspirational models in Algeria (similarity 0.81)
• Making the Revolution depend on women’s action was a wholly revolutionary step (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• The Revolution let love override customary paternal marriage authority in Algeria #corroborates (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 381
• Joint political struggle restructured Algerian gender relations from within #corroborates (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 252
• Armed revolutionary participation permanently transformed Algerian women’s self-identity and social role #corroborates (0.70)
• The Revolution dissolved patriarchal jealousy between Algerian men and women #corroborates (0.60)