The Revolution dissolved patriarchal jealousy between Algerian men and women

Evidence

Algerian society in the fight for liberation, in the sacrifices that it was willing to make in order to liberate itself from colonialism, renewed itself and developed new values governing sexual relations. The woman ceased to be a complement for man. She literally forged a new place for herself by her sheer strength. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 368 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Involved in the struggle, the husband or the father learns to look upon the relations between the sexes in a new light. The militant man discovers the militant woman, and jointly they create new dimensions for Algerian society. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 252 (#corroborates, 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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Revolution dissolved the Algerian husband’s traditional jealousy of his wife — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 252; Armed revolutionary participation permanently transformed Algerian women’s self-identity and social role; Colonial violence against families forged Algerian national unity through shared suffering (+12 more)

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