Winning over women gave colonial power over men and destructured culture

Evidence

In the colonialist program, it was the woman who was given the historic mission of shaking up the Algerian man. Converting the woman, winning her over to the foreign values, wrenching her free from her status, was at the same time achieving a real power over the man and attaining a practical, effective means of destructuring Algerian culture. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 135

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the reader’s core interest: how colonial permeation of one sector (women/domestic space) unravels the colonized society wholesale. — connects to: Colonial administration targeted starving women first with anti-veil propaganda.; Educated colonial men still view white women as unattainable honor they must apologize for; Colonial racial ideology shaped gendered relations under colonial capitalism. (+9 more)

Related

• Educated colonial men still view white women as unattainable honor they must apologize for (similarity 0.91)
• Colonial doctrine treated conquering women as the key to destroying Algerian resistance (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial administration targeted starving women first with anti-veil propaganda. (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial rhetoric weaponized other men’s sexism to justify cultural erasure (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial violence itself, not just revolutionary solidarity, reshaped Algerian feminine society (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial women materialized as subjects through race, not gender. (similarity 0.81)
• European women felt economically and socially threatened by assimilated Algerian women (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial unveiling campaigns functioned as psychological warfare against colonized men (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial confinement degraded Algerian women’s bodily mobility and assurance (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial violence forced Algerian leaders to adopt women as combatants (similarity 0.79)
• Colonized men marry European women partly out of pride and revenge (similarity 0.79)
• French unveiling campaigns functioned as gendered warfare to demoralize Algerian men. (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial feminization of subject men aimed at effeminizing and disempowering them (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial power relations were gendered and psychoanalytically structured (similarity 0.79)
• Colonialism functioned as an all-male training ground for masculinity (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Colonized men marry European women partly out of pride and revenge #exemplifies (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 254
• Black men asserted dominance over women to compensate for losing to white men #expands (0.70)