Colonial women materialized as subjects through race, not gender.

Evidence

As Radhika Mohanram asks for the Algerian colonial context: ‘Did French women in Algeria come into being only within the context of race and not within gender?’ Mohanram answers this question affirmatively, recalling Fanon’s description of a French woman’s excitement over the capture and anticipated castration of five members of the Algerian National Liberation Front. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 564

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the mode of thinking in Casting Out’s core argument about race structurating gender for colonized and settler women alike. — connects to: Woman is a historical situation, not an immutable essence — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 675
• SEED: Could feed an essay on how moral panic over immobilized Muslim women has historically inverted, with settler women empowered through racial witnessing.