The revolution affected Algerian women’s lives more profoundly than any other domain

Evidence

With the Revolution, things were gradually to change. The presence of women in the maquis, the contact between unmarried men and women, created unexpected problems for the local F.L.N. leaders. Men would go to their superior officer and ask to marry such and such a nurse. The F.L.N. officer would hesitate for a long time. No one can give a girl away in marriage, except her father, and in the father’s absence, her uncle or her brother. The officer did not feel he had a right to entertain the moudjahid’s request and sometimes found himself obliged to separate the two lovers. But love is an incontrovertible fact which must be reckoned with, and the leadership of the Revolution gave instructions that marriages could be contracted before a mayor or registry official. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 381 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

What could formerly be defined as mere cohabitation today includes a multiplicity of points of communication. First and foremost is the fact of incurring dangers together, of turning over in the same bed, each on his own side, each with his fragment of a secret. It is also the consciousness of collaborating in the immense work of destroying the world of oppression. The couple is no longer shut in upon itself. It no longer finds its end in itself. It is no longer the result of the natural instinct of perpetuation of the species, nor the institutionalized means of satisfying one’s sexuality. The couple becomes the basic cell of the commonwealth, the fertile nucleus of the nation. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 379 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

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 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Martyred women militants replaced marriage as the model for Algerian female identity; Algerian women regrouped in camps turned displacement into revolutionary political organization; Revolutionary struggle fused national liberation with women’s liberation in Algeria (+10 more)

Related

• Revolutionary struggle fused national liberation with women’s liberation in Algeria (similarity 0.94)
• The Revolution dissolved patriarchal jealousy between Algerian men and women (similarity 0.94)
• Armed revolutionary participation permanently transformed Algerian women’s self-identity and social role (similarity 0.92)
• Joint political struggle restructured Algerian gender relations from within (similarity 0.92)
• Martyred women militants replaced marriage as the model for Algerian female identity (similarity 0.92)
• Revolution transformed the Algerian couple from a family contract into a revolutionary unit (similarity 0.92)
• The Revolution let love override customary paternal marriage authority in Algeria (similarity 0.91)
• National liberation opened up new roles for Algerian women (similarity 0.91)
• Militant women replaced marriageable women as aspirational models in Algeria (similarity 0.90)
• Algerian liberation struggle itself forged new gender values preceding independence (similarity 0.90)
• Algerian women regrouped in camps turned displacement into revolutionary political organization (similarity 0.90)
• Algerian women’s militant action exceeded the resistance-fighter comparison (similarity 0.89)
• Colonial violence forced Algerian leaders to adopt women as combatants (similarity 0.88)
• Guerrilla war gave Algerian women their first experience of equality with men (similarity 0.88)
• Revolution dissolved the Algerian husband’s traditional jealousy of his wife (similarity 0.88)

Broader Connections

• The Revolution let love override customary paternal marriage authority in Algeria #exemplifies (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 381
• Revolution transformed the Algerian couple from a family contract into a revolutionary unit #exemplifies (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 379
• Guerrilla war gave Algerian women their first experience of equality with men #exemplifies (0.75) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1233
• Militant women replaced marriageable women as aspirational models in Algeria #exemplifies (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 365
• Algerian liberation struggle itself forged new gender values preceding independence #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 368
• Joint political struggle restructured Algerian gender relations from within #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 252
• Algeria hosted several simultaneous revolutions on distinct levels #expands (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 10