Publications in the Women and Gender category

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• IJAHS 57:3 (2024) Special Issue: First Ladies of Africa—Beyond Femocracy or Wifeism? IJAHS 57, by Guest Editor: Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué , pp. 255—391 p. (2024)
• First Ladies of Africa—Beyond Femocracy or Wifeism?: An Introduction IJAHS 57, by Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué , pp. 255—263 p. (2024)
• “Love her or Hate her”: The Complex Legacy of First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings IJAHS 57, by Nancy Henaku, pp. 265—286 p. (2024)
• Nokukhanya Luthuli as First Lady of the African National Congress IJAHS 57, by Jill E. Kelly, pp. 287—306 p. (2024)
• A First Lady’s Rise, Fall, and Reemergence: Fatma Karume’s Political and Diplomatic Evolution in Zanzibar IJAHS 57, by Jessica Ott , pp. 307—330 p. (2024)
• “This Woman Is a Traitor”: Miria Kalule Obote and the Pain of Presidential Politics in Post-Colonial Uganda IJAHS 57, by Alicia C. Decker, pp. 331—348 p. (2024)
• “We are Born Equal”: Graça Machel, Transnational Feminist IJAHS 57, by Kathleen Sheldon, pp. 349—364 p. (2024)
• Femocracy Revisited: Feminism and the State in Selected African Feminist Historical Studies IJAHS 57, by Amina Mama , pp. 365—370 p. (2024)
• Gendering Villagization: Women and Kinship Networks in Colonial and Socialist Lindi, Tanzania IJAHS 50, by Husseina Dinani, pp. 275—299 p. (2017)
• “Cherchez la femme”: African Gendarmes, Quarrelsome Women, and French Commanders in French West Africa, 1945–1960 IJAHS 47, by Ruth Ginio, pp. 37—54 p. (2014)
• Memories of a Mogadishu Childhood, 1940-1964: Maryn Muuse Boqor and the Women Who Inspired Her IJAHS 42, by Lidwien Kapteijns and Maryn Muuse Boqor, pp. 105—116 p. (2009)
• Sittaat: Somali Women's Songs for "The Mothers of the Believers", AH 25, by Lidwien Kapteijns, with Mariam Omar Ali, (1995)