Postwar Algeria disappointed leftist supporters by abandoning women’s and revolutionary promises.

Evidence

Sartre and the other left-wing French supporters of the wartime F.L.N. deplored that it had not gone further towards Marxism, that it failed to “export the revolution” to France. (An extreme revolutionary like Frantz Fanon would have found himself a prophet without honour in Boumedienne’s Algeria.) The emancipation of women lagged behind the promises of the war years, with the equality they had come to enjoy then forgotten in peace: “The woman is treated according to the racist principle of apartheid; she is still ‘colonised’,” complained Fadela M’Rabet in La Femme Algérienne. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1679

Categorization

• QUESTION: The claim that women ‘forgot’ wartime equality raises the mechanism question — was it deliberate policy or a return to pre-war norms?
• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s goal of seeing the Savage War of Peace ‘fought back’ — here the revolution’s own social gains reversed. — connects to: Post-independence Algeria’s influence abroad hid internal corruption and economic collapse. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 39

Related

• Militant women replaced marriageable women as aspirational models in Algeria (similarity 0.81)
• Any social revolution in Algeria required breaking colonial ties first (similarity 0.80)
• Guerrilla war gave Algerian women their first experience of equality with men (similarity 0.80)
• Algerian liberation struggle itself forged new gender values preceding independence (similarity 0.80)
• National liberation opened up new roles for Algerian women (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial violence forced Algerian leaders to adopt women as combatants (similarity 0.80)
• Algeria hosted several simultaneous revolutions on distinct levels (similarity 0.79)
• Joint political struggle restructured Algerian gender relations from within (similarity 0.79)
• The French Left’s inaction eliminated any liberal alternative for Algeria’s Europeans (similarity 0.79)
• The revolution affected Algerian women’s lives more profoundly than any other domain (similarity 0.78)
• Colonial violence itself, not just revolutionary solidarity, reshaped Algerian feminine society (similarity 0.78)
• Revolutionary struggle fused national liberation with women’s liberation in Algeria (similarity 0.78)
• F.L.N. propaganda offered little discussion of future Algerian social aims. (similarity 0.78)
• France believed wrongly that toppling Nasser would collapse the Algerian revolt. (similarity 0.78)
• Wartime Algeria indelibly shaped the post-1962 regime. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Post-independence Algeria’s influence abroad hid internal corruption and economic collapse. #expands (0.55) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 39