Original Date: January 16, 2024
The Future Is Feminist, offers a closer look at a pivotal moment in Algerian history when Algerians looked to feminism as a path out of the stifling realities of French colonial rule.
About Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué
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Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué is Associate Professor of African Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States with additional affiliations in the Department of History and the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies. Mougoué is a trained historian, focusing on women’s and gender history in mid-20th century West Africa. She is the author of Gender, Separatist Politics and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon (2019).
About Sara Rahnama
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Sara Rahnama is an Assistant Professor of History at Morgan State University and the author of The Future is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria. Her writing has appeared in both academic and popular spaces, including Gender & History, The Washington Post, and The Conversation. She was formerly a fellow at the Library of Congress’s Kluge Center.