Colonial confinement degraded Algerian women’s bodily mobility and assurance

Evidence

A one-sided interpretation of the main changes observed must, however, be avoided. The war waged by French colonialism obliges the Algerian people to be constantly and wholly engaged in the battle. Confronted by an adversary who has sworn to keep Algeria, even without the Algerians, it is difficult to remain oneself, to maintain preferences or values intact. Feminine society undergoes change both through an organic solidarity with the Revolution, and more especially because the adversary cuts into the Algerian flesh with unheard-of violence. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 385 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial prejudices sexualized and dehumanized the Algerian Muslim; Colonial violence itself, not just revolutionary solidarity, reshaped Algerian feminine society — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 385; Removing the veil disrupts the Algerian woman’s body image and spatial sense. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 204 (+7 more)

Related

• Colonial violence itself, not just revolutionary solidarity, reshaped Algerian feminine society (similarity 0.89)
• The European’s impulse to unveil Algerian women is an act of possession (similarity 0.88)
• Algerian women’s traditional seclusion made them the hardest nucleus of anti-colonial resistance (similarity 0.86)
• Removing the veil disrupts the Algerian woman’s body image and spatial sense. (similarity 0.85)
• Algerian women’s seclusion made them core vehicles of anti-colonial resistance (similarity 0.85)
• European women felt economically and socially threatened by assimilated Algerian women (similarity 0.85)
• Unveiled Algerian women unsettled European women by excelling at Western femininity (similarity 0.85)
• In European dreams, raping the Algerian woman requires first rending her veil (similarity 0.85)
• In European dreams rape of an Algerian woman is preceded by tearing the veil. (similarity 0.85)
• Colonial violence forced Algerian leaders to adopt women as combatants (similarity 0.85)
• Colonial doctrine treated conquering women as the key to destroying Algerian resistance (similarity 0.84)
• Algerian women’s veiling practices changed without being part of the revolution’s program (similarity 0.84)
• Pacification devastated rural Algerian demographics, leaving eight women per two men (similarity 0.84)
• The veil shifted from passive tradition into an active revolutionary instrument (similarity 0.83)
• Forced evacuation of mechtas restructured Algerian perceptual and social reality (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Colonial prejudices sexualized and dehumanized the Algerian Muslim #expands (0.70)
• Colonial violence itself, not just revolutionary solidarity, reshaped Algerian feminine society #corroborates (0.65) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 385
• Removing the veil disrupts the Algerian woman’s body image and spatial sense. #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 204
• In European dreams rape of an Algerian woman is preceded by tearing the veil. #expands (0.60)
• The European’s impulse to unveil Algerian women is an act of possession #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 152
• In European dreams, raping the Algerian woman requires first rending her veil #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 159
• Forced evacuation of mechtas restructured Algerian perceptual and social reality #corroborates (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 388
• The unveiled Algerian woman functioned as an essential operative in the revolutionary network. #complicates (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 205