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Silenced Resistance - Women, Dictatorships, and Genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea (Hardcover)
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Silenced Resistance - Women, Dictatorships, and Genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea (Hardcover)
Series: Women in Africa and the Diaspora
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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.
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