The unveiled Algerian woman functioned as an essential operative in the revolutionary network.

Evidence

But the Algerian woman is not only in conflict with her body. She is a link, sometimes an essential one, in the revolutionary machine. She carries weapons, knows important points of refuge. And it is in terms of the concrete dangers that she faces that we must gauge the insurmountable victories that she has had to win in order to be able to say to her chief, on her return: “Mission accomplished … R.A.S.” — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 205

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial confinement degraded Algerian women’s bodily mobility and assurance; National liberation opened up new roles for Algerian women — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 364; Revolutionary struggle fused national liberation with women’s liberation in Algeria

Related

• National liberation opened up new roles for Algerian women (similarity 0.90)
• Revolutionary struggle fused national liberation with women’s liberation in Algeria (similarity 0.87)
• Making the Revolution depend on women’s action was a wholly revolutionary step (similarity 0.87)
• Algerian women’s militant action exceeded the resistance-fighter comparison (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial violence forced Algerian leaders to adopt women as combatants (similarity 0.86)
• Armed revolutionary participation permanently transformed Algerian women’s self-identity and social role (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial doctrine treated conquering women as the key to destroying Algerian resistance (similarity 0.85)
• Algerian liberation struggle itself forged new gender values preceding independence (similarity 0.85)
• The revolution affected Algerian women’s lives more profoundly than any other domain (similarity 0.85)
• Algerian women’s traditional seclusion made them the hardest nucleus of anti-colonial resistance (similarity 0.85)
• Joint political struggle restructured Algerian gender relations from within (similarity 0.84)
• Martyred women militants replaced marriage as the model for Algerian female identity (similarity 0.84)
• Militant women replaced marriageable women as aspirational models in Algeria (similarity 0.84)
• Algerian women’s seclusion made them core vehicles of anti-colonial resistance (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial confinement degraded Algerian women’s bodily mobility and assurance (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• National liberation opened up new roles for Algerian women #corroborates (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 364
• Revolutionary struggle fused national liberation with women’s liberation in Algeria #corroborates (0.55)