Illiteracy and unemployment forced Algerian girls into early marriage

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

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Algerian girls experienced only two life stages, omitting the Western period of puberty; A French official survey documented mass unemployment and illiteracy among Algerian Muslims; Algerian poverty and unemployment fuelled recruits for the Islamicist revolt — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 43

Related

• Algerian girls experienced only two life stages, omitting the Western period of puberty (similarity 0.86)
• A French official survey documented mass unemployment and illiteracy among Algerian Muslims (similarity 0.86)
• Algerian poverty and unemployment fuelled recruits for the Islamicist revolt (similarity 0.82)
• Militant women replaced marriageable women as aspirational models in Algeria (similarity 0.82)
• The revolution affected Algerian women’s lives more profoundly than any other domain (similarity 0.80)
• Roughly three million Algerian Muslims faced serious underemployment by 1955 (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Algerian poverty and unemployment fuelled recruits for the Islamicist revolt #expands (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 43