Editing Algerian War (section)

== Role of women ==
{{Main|Women in the Algerian War}}
[[File:Les poseuses de bombes.jpg|thumb|FLN female bombers]]
Women participated in a variety of roles during the Algerian War. The majority of Muslim women who became active participants did so on the side of the National Liberation Front (FLN). The French included some women, both Muslim and French, in their war effort, but they were not as fully integrated, nor were they charged with the same breadth of tasks as the women on the Algerian side. The total number of women involved in the conflict, as determined by post-war veteran registration, is numbered at 11,000, but it is possible that this number was significantly higher due to underreporting.<ref name="DeGroot">{{cite book |last1=De Groot |first1=Gerard |title=A Soldier and a Woman: Sexual Integration in the Military |last2=Peniston-Bird |first2=Corinna |publisher=Longman |year=2000 |isbn=9780582414396 |page=247}}</ref>

Urban and rural women's experiences in the revolution differed greatly. Urban women, who constituted about twenty percent of the overall force, had received some kind of education and usually chose to enter on the side of the FLN of their own accord.<ref name="Lazreg, Marnia p. 120">Lazreg, Marnia. ''The Eloquence of Silence''. London: Routledge, 1994 p. 120</ref> Largely illiterate rural women, on the other hand, the remaining eighty percent, due to their geographic location in respect to the operations of FLN often became involved in the conflict as a result of proximity paired with force.<ref name="Lazreg, Marnia p. 120" />

Women operated in a number of different areas during the course of the rebellion. "Women participated actively as combatants, spies, fundraisers, as well as nurses, launderers, and cooks",<ref>Turshen, Meredith. "Algerian Women in the Liberation Struggle and the Civil War: From Active Participants to Passive Victims". ''Social Research'' Vol. 69 No. 3 (Fall 2002) p. 889-911, p.890</ref> "women assisted the male fighting forces in areas like transportation, communication and administration"<ref name="DeGroot" />{{rp|223}} the range of involvement by a woman could include both combatant and non-combatant roles. [[Eveline Safir Lavalette]] was a notable contributor to the Revolution as a distributor of pamphlets for the FLN's underground newspaper. While most women's tasks were non-combatant, their less frequent, violent acts were more noticed. The reality was that "rural women in maquis [[rural areas]] support networks"<ref>Vince, Natalya "Transgressing Boundaries: Gender, Race, Religion and 'Fracaises Musulmannes during Algerian War of Independence." ''French Historical Studies''. Vol. 33 No. 3 (Summer 2010) pp. 445–474, p.445</ref> contained the overwhelming majority of those who participated; female combatants were in the minority.

Perhaps the most famous incident involving Algerian women revolutionaries was the Milk Bar Café bombing of 1956, when [[Zohra Drif]] and [[Saadi Yacef|Yacef Saâdi]] planted three bombs: one in the [[Air France]] office in the Mauritania building in Algiers,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Vlazna |first1=Vacy |date=November 9, 2017 |title=Inside the Battle of Algiers: Memoir of a Woman Freedom Fighter – Book Review |agency=Palestine Chronicle |url=https://alethonews.com/2017/11/16/inside-the-battle-of-algiers-memoir-of-a-woman-freedom-fighter-book-review/ |access-date=7 May 2020 |archive-date=28 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728154420/https://alethonews.com/2017/11/16/inside-the-battle-of-algiers-memoir-of-a-woman-freedom-fighter-book-review/ |url-status=live }}</ref> which did not explode, one in a cafeteria on the Rue Michelet, and another at the Milk Bar Café, which killed 3 young women and injured multiple adults and children.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Drif |first=Zohra |title=Inside the Battle of Algiers: Memoir of a Woman Freedom Fighter |publisher=Just World Books |year=2017 |isbn=978-1682570753}}</ref> [[Algerian Communist Party]]-member [[Raymonde Peschard]] was initially accused of being an accomplice to the bombing and was forced to flee from the colonial authorities.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Drew |first=Allison |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DfI_CwAAQBAJ&q=Raymonde+Peschard+algerian+martyr&pg=PT241 |title=We Are No Longer in France: Communists in Colonial Algeria |date=2014-11-01 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9781847799203 |language=en}}</ref> In September 1957, though, Drif and Saâdi were arrested and sentenced to twenty years hard labor in the [[Serkadji Prison|Barbarossa prison]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Whaley Eager |first=Paige |title=From Freedom Fighters to Terrorists: Women and Political Violence |publisher=Routledge |year=2016 |isbn=978-1317132288 |page=109}}</ref> Drif was pardoned by [[Charles de Gaulle]] when [[Algerian independence|Algeria gained independence]] in 1962.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rohlof |first=Caroline |date=2012 |title=Reality and Representation of Algerian Women: The Complex Dynamic of Heroines and Repressed Women |url=https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=french_honproj |journal=Illinois Wesleyan University |access-date=28 July 2020 |archive-date=6 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506164350/https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=french_honproj |url-status=live }}</ref>