In European dreams, raping the Algerian woman requires first rending her veil

Evidence

Thus the rape of the Algerian woman in the dream of a European is always preceded by a rending of the veil. We here witness a double deflowering. Likewise, the woman’s conduct is never one of consent or acceptance, but of abject humility. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 159

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘double deflowering’ connects to the conquest history—rape of women mirroring rape of the country—central to understanding colonial violence. — connects to: Colonial conquest history planted rape fantasies in European dreams about Algerian women; Colonial confinement degraded Algerian women’s bodily mobility and assurance; In European dreams rape of an Algerian woman is preceded by tearing the veil. (+3 more)

Related

• In European dreams rape of an Algerian woman is preceded by tearing the veil. (similarity 0.96)
• Colonial conquest history planted rape fantasies in European dreams about Algerian women (similarity 0.89)
• The European’s impulse to unveil Algerian women is an act of possession (similarity 0.89)
• Colonial confinement degraded Algerian women’s bodily mobility and assurance (similarity 0.85)
• Removing the veil disrupts the Algerian woman’s body image and spatial sense. (similarity 0.82)
• Unveiled Algerian women unsettled European women by excelling at Western femininity (similarity 0.82)
• European observers read the veil as concealing beauty that should be forcibly exhibited (similarity 0.81)
• French unveiling campaigns aimed to demoralize Algerian men, not liberate women (similarity 0.80)
• Algerian women’s veiling practices changed without being part of the revolution’s program (similarity 0.79)
• European women felt economically and socially threatened by assimilated Algerian women (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Removing the veil disrupts the Algerian woman’s body image and spatial sense. #expands (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 204
• Unveiled Algerian women unsettled European women by excelling at Western femininity #complicates (0.60)