The revolution redefined manly virility as patriotic combat for Algerian women

Evidence

The struggle for liberation raised woman to such a level of inner renewal that she is even able to call her husband a coward. Rather frequently, by allusions or explicitly, the Algerian woman would upbraid her husband for his inactivity, his refusal to commit himself, his lack of militancy. This was the period when young girls among themselves would vow never to let themselves be married to a man who did not belong to the F.L.N. The Algerian woman, in throwing caution to the winds, at the same time divests herself of the instinct to protect her home. Reproaching one’s husband for not participating in a combat known to be deadly is a paradoxical kind of behavior, to say the least. But the women no longer consider the man’s conditions as they did before. The man’s job is patriotic activity and no one can affirm his virility if he is not a part of the fighting nation. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 375 (#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; The Revolution dissolved patriarchal jealousy between Algerian men and women (+4 more)

Related

• The revolution relocated masculine virility from home to patriotic combat (similarity 0.96)
• Armed revolutionary participation permanently transformed Algerian women’s self-identity and social role (similarity 0.89)
• The Revolution dissolved patriarchal jealousy between Algerian men and women (similarity 0.88)
• Algerian women’s militant action exceeded the resistance-fighter comparison (similarity 0.87)
• Revolutionary struggle fused national liberation with women’s liberation in Algeria (similarity 0.87)
• The revolution affected Algerian women’s lives more profoundly than any other domain (similarity 0.86)
• Algerian liberation struggle itself forged new gender values preceding independence (similarity 0.86)
• National liberation opened up new roles for Algerian women (similarity 0.86)
• Joint political struggle restructured Algerian gender relations from within (similarity 0.85)
• The Revolution let love override customary paternal marriage authority in Algeria (similarity 0.85)
• Colonial violence forced Algerian leaders to adopt women as combatants (similarity 0.85)
• Revolution dissolved the Algerian husband’s traditional jealousy of his wife (similarity 0.85)
• Revolution transformed the Algerian couple from a family contract into a revolutionary unit (similarity 0.84)
• Guerrilla war gave Algerian women their first experience of equality with men (similarity 0.84)
• Martyred women militants replaced marriage as the model for Algerian female identity (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• The revolution relocated masculine virility from home to patriotic combat #expands (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 375