Making the Revolution depend on women’s action was a wholly revolutionary step

Evidence

In the mountains, women helped the guerrilla during halts or when convalescing after a wound or a case of typhoid contracted in the djebel. But deciding to incorporate women as essential elements, to have the Revolution depend on their presence and their action in this or that sector, was obviously a wholly revolutionary step. To have the Revolution rest at any point on their activity was an important choice. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 168

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Armed revolutionary participation permanently transformed Algerian women’s self-identity and social role; Women entered the resistance by invoking operational effectiveness against masculine secrecy — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 376; The Revolution let love override customary paternal marriage authority in Algeria — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 381

Related

• Armed revolutionary participation permanently transformed Algerian women’s self-identity and social role (similarity 0.89)
• Colonial violence forced Algerian leaders to adopt women as combatants (similarity 0.89)
• The revolution affected Algerian women’s lives more profoundly than any other domain (similarity 0.88)
• The unveiled Algerian woman functioned as an essential operative in the revolutionary network. (similarity 0.87)
• Revolutionary struggle fused national liberation with women’s liberation in Algeria (similarity 0.87)
• National liberation opened up new roles for Algerian women (similarity 0.87)
• Algerian women’s militant action exceeded the resistance-fighter comparison (similarity 0.86)
• Martyred women militants replaced marriage as the model for Algerian female identity (similarity 0.85)
• Joint political struggle restructured Algerian gender relations from within (similarity 0.85)
• Algerian liberation struggle itself forged new gender values preceding independence (similarity 0.84)
• Revolution transformed the Algerian couple from a family contract into a revolutionary unit (similarity 0.84)
• The revolution redefined manly virility as patriotic combat for Algerian women (similarity 0.84)
• Militant women replaced marriageable women as aspirational models in Algeria (similarity 0.84)
• The Revolution let love override customary paternal marriage authority in Algeria (similarity 0.84)
• The revolution relocated masculine virility from home to patriotic combat (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Armed revolutionary participation permanently transformed Algerian women’s self-identity and social role #corroborates (0.70)
• Women entered the resistance by invoking operational effectiveness against masculine secrecy #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 376
• The Revolution let love override customary paternal marriage authority in Algeria #exemplifies (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 381