The Battle of Algiers began with women bombing civilian targets
Evidence
30 September: Yacef’s girls bomb Milk-Bar and Cafétéria: Battle of Algiers begins 16 October: Interception of Athos loaded with arms from Egypt for F.L.N. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1710
Categorization
- FICTION: The detail of women carrying out bombings is the dramatic core of the film Battle of Algiers and a striking reversal of gendered expectations about who conducts urban terrorism.
- XREF: connects to: Colonial violence forced Algerian leaders to adopt women as combatants — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 167; Soummam’s military doctrine produced the F.L.N.’s catastrophic Battle of Algiers — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 452; Torture became institutionalized in the French army during the Battle of Algiers — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 592 (+4 more)
Related
- Colonial violence forced Algerian leaders to adopt women as combatants (similarity 0.82)
- Guerrilla war gave Algerian women their first experience of equality with men (similarity 0.80)
- Militant women replaced marriageable women as aspirational models in Algeria (similarity 0.79)
- Algerian women’s militant action exceeded the resistance-fighter comparison (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Algerian women’s seclusion made them core vehicles of anti-colonial resistance
#exemplifies(0.75) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1230 - Military commanders privately authorized bombing and collective responsibility in Algeria.
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