Militant women replaced marriageable women as aspirational models in Algeria

Evidence

In Algerian society stories were told of women who in ever greater number suffered death and imprisonment in order that an independent Algeria might be born. It was these militant women who constituted the points of reference around which the imagination of Algerian feminine society was to be stirred to the boiling point. The woman-for-marriage progressively disappeared, and gave way to the woman-for-action. The young girl was replaced by the militant, the woman by the sister. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 365

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: European women felt economically and socially threatened by assimilated Algerian women — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 246; Armed revolutionary participation permanently transformed Algerian women’s self-identity and social role; Martyred women militants replaced marriage as the model for Algerian female identity (+9 more)

Related

• Martyred women militants replaced marriage as the model for Algerian female identity (similarity 0.93)
• Algerian women’s militant action exceeded the resistance-fighter comparison (similarity 0.92)
• The revolution affected Algerian women’s lives more profoundly than any other domain (similarity 0.90)
• Algerian liberation struggle itself forged new gender values preceding independence (similarity 0.90)
• Joint political struggle restructured Algerian gender relations from within (similarity 0.89)
• Guerrilla war gave Algerian women their first experience of equality with men (similarity 0.89)
• National liberation opened up new roles for Algerian women (similarity 0.89)
• Colonial violence forced Algerian leaders to adopt women as combatants (similarity 0.88)
• Armed revolutionary participation permanently transformed Algerian women’s self-identity and social role (similarity 0.87)
• Revolutionary struggle fused national liberation with women’s liberation in Algeria (similarity 0.87)
• The revolution redefined manly virility as patriotic combat for Algerian women (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial violence itself, not just revolutionary solidarity, reshaped Algerian feminine society (similarity 0.84)
• Making the Revolution depend on women’s action was a wholly revolutionary step (similarity 0.84)
• The unveiled Algerian woman functioned as an essential operative in the revolutionary network. (similarity 0.84)
• European women felt economically and socially threatened by assimilated Algerian women (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Guerrilla war gave Algerian women their first experience of equality with men #expands (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1233