The female body’s shaping inverted from seduction into tactical concealment

Evidence

The Algerian woman’s body, which in an initial phase was pared down, now swelled. Whereas in the previous period the body had to be made slim and disciplined to make it attractive and seductive, it now had to be squashed, made shapeless and even ridiculous. This, as we have seen, is the phase during which she undertook to carry bombs, grenades, machine-gun clips. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 210

Categorization

• XREF: The body itself is re-coded by struggle — a corporeal parallel to the veil’s dynamism and Fanon’s larger claim that war restructures the colonized body. — connects to: Sexual objectification of Muslim women fuses desire and military intervention fantasy; Hostile stares function as a form of surveillance discipline on hijab-wearing women; Veiling functions for converts as emancipatory protection from sexual objectification. — Margaret Hodson, Baby Jihad, 45 (+3 more)

Related

• Removing the veil disrupts the Algerian woman’s body image and spatial sense. (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial confinement degraded Algerian women’s bodily mobility and assurance (similarity 0.81)
• Sexual objectification of Muslim women fuses desire and military intervention fantasy (similarity 0.79)
• European observers read the veil as concealing beauty that should be forcibly exhibited (similarity 0.79)
• Algerian women who had abandoned the veil re-donned it in response to forced unveiling (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Sexual objectification of Muslim women fuses desire and military intervention fantasy #complicates (0.50)
• Hostile stares function as a form of surveillance discipline on hijab-wearing women #corroborates (0.50)
• Veiling functions for converts as emancipatory protection from sexual objectification. #contradicts (0.45) — Margaret Hodson, Baby Jihad, 45