{"title":"The Immigrants of BUMIDOM and Their Resistance to Employment Assignments","authors":"Nora Eguienta, Sylvain Pattieu, S. C. Kaplan","doi":"10.1353/jowh.2023.a905192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jowh.2023.a905192","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Bureau pour le développement des migrations dans les départements d’outre-mer (Office for the Development of Immigration in the Overseas Departments of France, or BUMIDOM), created by France in 1963, oversaw the immigration of some two hundred thousand people from the Overseas Departments, about a third of whom were women, to metropolitan France between 1963 and 1982. These immigrants were subjected to strictly controlled employment assignments. These women, mostly Black women succeeded, partially, in escaping them. Without comprising a Black feminist movement per se, these women demonstrated a desire for emancipation and a capacity for agency through different strategies. Although their social and economic situation did not put them in a dominant position, they were still not entirely defenseless against BUMIDOM, whose capacity to control the women was limited and which appeared to be a weak institution. Thus, these immigrants’ assorted paths are reminiscent of other forms of contemporary Black feminisms in which Antillean women have long distinguished themselves.","PeriodicalId":45948,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Womens History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44825969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“The Ministry of Women’s Affairs will not be Feminist”: Jeanne Gervais and Gender Complementarity in Côte d’Ivoire","authors":"Elizabeth Jacob","doi":"10.1353/jowh.2023.a905189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jowh.2023.a905189","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article traces the life and politics of Jeanne Gervais, the first Minister of Women’s Affairs in Côte d’Ivoire. Although she devoted her political career to projects for women’s empowerment, she consistently eschewed the term “feminist,” emphasizing instead the principle of gender complementarity that lay at the heart of her endeavors. Yet Gervais was far from conservative or out of step with the 1970s global women’s movement. Rather, her position reflected a desire to reconcile West African conceptions of motherhood with the postcolonial imperatives for development.","PeriodicalId":45948,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Womens History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44444228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contexts and Spaces of Intersectionality: The Black Feminism and Internationalism of Lydie Dooh-Bunya, 1970–1990","authors":"Pamela Ohene-Nyako, S. C. Kaplan","doi":"10.1353/jowh.2023.a905193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jowh.2023.a905193","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article retraces the local and transnational ideas and activism of Lydie Dooh-Bunya, a French novelist, journalist, and activist from Cameroon. Its objective is to understand how Dooh-Bunya’s life experiences as well as the sociopolitical, intellectual, and activist contexts to which she had access contributed to the articulation and practice of a specific form of feminism at the intersection of colonialism, patriarchy, and racism, and how it evolved through her interactions both local and global. Through the tools offered by biographic and transnational approaches, this research contributes to the historiography of Black women’s and people’s agency and internationalism, and historicizes an intersectionality resulting from intellectual thought and lived experiences.","PeriodicalId":45948,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Womens History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44903113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Gendered Consequences of Abolition and Citizenship on Nineteenth-Century Gorée Island","authors":"Sarah J. Zimmerman","doi":"10.1353/jowh.2023.a905188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jowh.2023.a905188","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the spring of 1848, the French Second Republic abolished slavery and made citizens of most adult male residents in its overseas territories. Gorée Island (Senegal) became a French exclave, where free and freed women experienced socioeconomic and political decline. The patriarchal French state that “liberated” enslaved women and “enfranchised” former female slave owners simultaneously limited Goréen women’s avenues to economic prosperity and political authority. French republicanism unsettled a significant sociopolitical distinction, the slave–nonslave divide, making gender a more salient factor mediating Goréens’ access to liberty and the public sphere. Goréen women experienced their formal integration into the Second French Republic—with the regime’s patriarchal republican laws and institutions—as colonialism. Goréens became members of a French Republic that championed universal equality, gendered difference, and patriarchy. French republican tenets excluded Goréen women from civic politics and the public sphere and created female colonial subjects on an island of citizens.","PeriodicalId":45948,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Womens History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47628080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond Translation","authors":"J. Davis, S. Holguin","doi":"10.1353/jowh.2023.a905186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jowh.2023.a905186","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45948,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Womens History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49449087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Slavery’s Handmaidens: Gender, Sex, and Reproduction in the Black Atlantic","authors":"K. Brown","doi":"10.1353/jowh.2023.a905197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jowh.2023.a905197","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45948,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Womens History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44416520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jocelyne Béroard, Jacqueline Couti, B. Dembélé, Joëlle Kapompole, Rose Ndengue, Fania Noël
{"title":"Roundtable on Women’s Traversing Paths: Forms of Political Engagement and Production of Knowledge","authors":"Jocelyne Béroard, Jacqueline Couti, B. Dembélé, Joëlle Kapompole, Rose Ndengue, Fania Noël","doi":"10.1353/jowh.2023.a905195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jowh.2023.a905195","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45948,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Womens History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43886784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Elegant Incursions: Fashion, Music, and Gender Dissidence in 1950s Brazzaville and Kinshasa","authors":"Charlotte Grabli","doi":"10.1353/jowh.2023.a905191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jowh.2023.a905191","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article retraces the history of Congolese “elegance clubs,” women’s associations that worked in the realms of fashion and music in the 1950s. As they achieved huge visibility and social power in the twin cities of Brazzaville and Leopoldville (today Kinshasa), elegance clubs broadened women’s access to the city while carving out spaces for gender dissidence. This article explores their “elegant incursions” in the cities while recovering women’s voices all too rarely heard when read primarily through repressed phenomena such as prostitution. It analyzes the activity and experience of elegance clubs’ members, women radio presenters, singers, and journalists and their claims about mobility, pleasure, fame, and female respectability.","PeriodicalId":45948,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Womens History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45291837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deprovincializing the Feminine/Feminist Cameroonian Nationalism of the 1950s: The UDEFEC and Pluriversal Black Feminism","authors":"Rose Ndengue, S. C. Kaplan","doi":"10.1353/jowh.2023.a905190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jowh.2023.a905190","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article seeks to enrich the production of knowledge about Black feminisms by documenting the mobilizations of the Cameroonian nationalist activists of the Democratic Union of Cameroonian Women, or UDEFEC, in the middle of the 1950s. I will center the contributions of African women to movements for women’s equality. To this end, I consider the emancipatory speeches and practices elaborated by female activists coming from rural zones within the frame of the reorganization of the nationalist public space in order to understand how their participation in the fight for liberation reveals a Black feminist practice. This approach outlines the contours of a political project as the vector for a holistic, equitable emancipation, focused on the margins and founded on the dismantling of the coloniality of gender and female citizenship, on the one hand, and the establishment of a democratic society that values popular sovereignty, on the other.","PeriodicalId":45948,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Womens History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46876734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}