The revolution relocated masculine virility from home to patriotic combat

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

Categorization

• XREF: Reversals of gender norms here resonate with how other anticolonial movements redefined masculinity and femininity under war conditions. — connects to: The revolution redefined manly virility as patriotic combat for Algerian women

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