Women entered the resistance by invoking operational effectiveness against masculine secrecy

Evidence

It was on the grounds of effectiveness that she persuaded her husband to allow her to become involved in action. She would invoke, for example, the case of a militant who, under torture, had given names and thereby caused the destruction of a whole network, and she would warn her husband against wanting to be “the only one in the know,” out of a false pride concealing itself behind the mask of secrecy. Little by little, resistances disappeared and the united militant couple, participating in the birth of the nation, became the rule in Algeria. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 376

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘false pride behind secrecy’ argument parallels how revolutionary rationality displaced traditional honor codes throughout this chapter. — connects to: Making the Revolution depend on women’s action was a wholly revolutionary step — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 168; Hijab-wearing women are caught between self-surveillance and resistance.; Pilot resistance to drones inscribed a threat to masculine virility through risk-taking. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 354 (+4 more)

Related

• Algerian women’s militant action exceeded the resistance-fighter comparison (similarity 0.82)
• Making the Revolution depend on women’s action was a wholly revolutionary step (similarity 0.81)
• Algerian women’s seclusion made them core vehicles of anti-colonial resistance (similarity 0.81)
• Algerian women’s traditional seclusion made them the hardest nucleus of anti-colonial resistance (similarity 0.80)
• Algerian women turned the veil into a weapon of anticolonial warfare (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial doctrine treated conquering women as the key to destroying Algerian resistance (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial violence forced Algerian leaders to adopt women as combatants (similarity 0.79)
• The unveiled Algerian woman functioned as an essential operative in the revolutionary network. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Algerian women’s seclusion made them core vehicles of anti-colonial resistance #exemplifies (0.75) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1230
• Pilot resistance to drones inscribed a threat to masculine virility through risk-taking. #expands (0.60) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 354
• Muslim women’s volunteering is gendered resistance to citizen-level racism #expands (0.50)
• Some hijab-wearing women resist surveillance by reclaiming public space #exemplifies (0.50) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 500
• Hijab-wearing women are caught between self-surveillance and resistance. #complicates (0.40)