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Discuss Fanon's treatment of women and gender in today's reading. Do his statements surprise you? Why or why not? How does his philosophy compare to your concept of gender relations in developing nations today? How does it compare to gender relations in the modern U.S.?
Students may refer to the handful of passages where Fanon explicitly mentions women, including: "Women shall be given equal importance to men, not in the articles of the constitution, but in daily life, at the factory, in the schools, and in assemblies" ("The Trials and Tribulations of National Consciousness"). Conversely, they may also note where women are conspicuously not mentioned—for example, the...
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