Participant Info

First Name
Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta
Last Name
Mougoué
Country
United States
State
WI Wisconsin
Affiliation
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Website URL
https://jacquelinebethelmougoue.com/
Keywords
Gender, State Politics, Body Politics, Religious Ideologies
Availability
Media Contact
Additional Contact Information
https://african.wisc.edu/staff/mougoue-jacqueline-bethel/
PhD
PhD

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About Me

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. Previously, she was an assistant professor of African history at Baylor University in the United States (2013-2019). Mougoué is a trained historian, focusing on women’s and gender history in mid-20th century West Africa. Mougoué’s book, Gender, Separatist Politics and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon received the 2020 Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize and the 2021 Aidoo-Snyder Prize. The Washington Post selected the book for its 2020 summer reading list. Mougoué was selected as one of 15 African women historians shaping understandings of Africa’s historical past by AMAKA magazine in 2022.

Recent Publications

“Souvenons-Nous Des Femmes! Elles Ont Joue Un Role Décisif Dans L’Histoire” [Remember Women! They Have Played a Decisive Role in History]. In Résistance: Trois Générations de Lutte Anticoloniale au Cameroun [Resistance: Three Generations of Anti-Colonial Struggle in Cameroon], edited by Initiative Perspektivwechsel, 117-119. Berlin, Germany, 2021.

Gender, Separatist Politics and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2019.

“‘Where are all the Women who used to be Good Athletes in their School Days?’: Sports and Gendered Leisure in Anglophone Cameroon in the 1960s and 1970s.” In Africa Every Day: Fun, Leisure, and Expressive Culture on the Continent. Edited by Kemi Balogun, Lisa Gilman, Melissa Graboyes, and Habib Iddrisu, 145-154. Ohio University Press, 2019.

“Over-Making Nyanga: Mastering ‘Natural’ Beauty and Disciplining Excessive Bodily Practices in Metropolitan Cameroon.” African Studies Review Vol. 62, Issue 2 (June 2019): 175-198.

“Gender and (Militarized) Secessionist Movements in Africa: An African Feminist’s Reflections.” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism Vol. 17, No. 2 (2018): 338-358. 

“The Anlu Rebellion.” In The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. Edited by Thomas Spear. New York: Oxford University Press, March 2018.

“Intellectual Housewives, Journalism, and Anglophone Nationalism in Cameroon, 1961-72.” Journal of West African History Vol. 3, Issue 2 (2017): 67-92.

“Housewives at Husbands’ Throats: Recalcitrant Wives and Gender Norms in a West African Nation, 1961-1972.” Gender & History Vol. 29, Issue 2 (2017): 405-422.

“African Women do not Look Good in Wigs: Gender, Beauty Rituals and Cultural Identity in Anglophone Cameroon, 1961-1972.” Feminist Africa Issue 21 (2016): 7-22.

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Cameroon
Expertise by Geography
Africa
Expertise by Chronology
Modern, 20th century
Expertise by Topic
Gender, Politics, Women