Binding: Hardcover
Description: Spain's former African colonies - Equatorial Guinea and Western Sahara - share similar histories. Both are under the thumbs of heavy - handed postcolonial regimes and are known by human rights organizations as being among the worst places in the world with regard to oppression and lack of civil liberties. Yet the resistance movement in one is dominated by women the other by men. In this innovative work Joanna Allan demonstrates why we should foreground gender as key for understanding both authoritarian power projection and resistance. She brings an ethnographic component to a subject that has often been looked at through the lens of literary studies to examine how concerns for equality and women's rights can be co - opted for authoritarian projects. She reveals how Moroccan and Equatoguinean regimes in partnership with Western states and corporations conjure a mirage of promoting equality while simultaneously undermining women's rights in a bid to cash in on oil minerals and other natural resources. This genderwashing along with historical local indigenous and colonially imposed gender norms mixed with Western misconceptions about African and Arab gender roles plays an integral role in determining the shape and composition of public resistance to authoritarian regimes.
Title: Silenced Resistance Women Dictatorships And Genderwashing In Western Sahara And Equatorial Guinea
Author(s): Allan Joanna
Publisher: University Of Wisconsin Press
Barcode: 9780299318406
Pages: 336 Pages, 2 Maps, 5 Black & White Photographs
Publication Date: 4/9/2019
Series: Women in Africa and the Diaspora
Category: International Relations