This book by Joanna Allan is a comparative study that analyses the resistance to the colonial and postcolonial regimes in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea from a gender perspective. Those familiar with the complicated political situation in these two former Spanish colonies in Africa, of which we are constantly reminded by the use of pseudonyms by the informants, will appreciate the courage of this work given the conditions under which it has been carried out. The research spans across Spanish colonial archives and fieldwork in Equatorial Guinea, the Saharawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria, and Morocco-occupied Western Sahara. The book is divided into three parts, with two chapters in each. The first part is dedicated to the colonial regime. The second covers the politics of gender in postcolonial states – in this case the Saharawi state in exile in the refugee camps of Tindouf, and in Equatorial Guinea. The third focuses on how repression and resistance are gendered in postcolonial regimes, specifically in the Western Sahara occupied by Morocco, and in Equatorial Guinea. In each part, one chapter is dedicated to each of the two territories. In this balanced distribution of analysis, the researcher manages to link both cases through constant comparisons and theoretical references, and by shifting the focus from the analysis of gender to geopolitics and from hegemonic discourses to daily resistance. As the author herself recognizes, this distribution could be problematic. Access and the breadth of fieldwork had very different conditions in each location. This imbalance leads to greater development of the Saharawi case, which is more thoroughly illustrated. In addition, these different spaces and chronological periods have already been covered asymmetrically in the existing academic literature. In the case of Western Sahara and the Saharawi refugee camps, this work is riding the wave of the academic boom of monographs accompanying it from both historical and anthropological perspectives. The situation with research on Equatorial Guinea and theWestern Sahara occupied byMorocco is very different, as the academic attention to these locations is much more limited, although not completely absent. The comparison of these two unequally researched spaces is a key challenge for Allan’s approach, an endeavour that is achieved thanks to intense theoretical work. One of the author’s starting points is feminist theory, of which she makes extensive use throughout her research; she maps specifically gendered situations of oppression and the ways in which women have been resisting them. The idea of

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乔安娜艾伦，沉默的抵抗：西撒哈拉和赤道几内亚的妇女、独裁统治和性别清洗。威斯康星州麦迪逊：威斯康星大学出版社（hb US$79.95 – 978 0 299 31840 6）。2019, 360 页.1

乔安娜艾伦的这本书是一本比较研究，从性别角度分析了西撒哈拉和赤道几内亚对殖民和后殖民政权的抵抗。那些熟悉这两个前西班牙在非洲殖民地的复杂政治局势的人，在这些情况下，线人使用的化名不断提醒我们，他们会欣赏这项工作的勇气，因为它是在这种条件下进行的。该研究跨越了赤道几内亚的西班牙殖民档案和实地调查、阿尔及利亚廷杜夫的撒哈拉难民营和摩洛哥占领的西撒哈拉。本书分为三部分，每部分两章。第一部分致力于殖民政权。第二部分涉及后殖民国家的性别政治——在这种情况下是流亡在廷杜夫难民营和赤道几内亚的撒哈拉国家。第三个重点是在后殖民政权中，特别是在摩洛哥占领的西撒哈拉和赤道几内亚，压制和抵抗是如何性别化的。在每一部分中，都有一章专门介绍这两个地区。在这种均衡分布的分析中，研究人员通过不断的比较和理论参考，并将重点从性别分析转移到地缘政治，从霸权话语转移到日常抵抗，设法将这两种情况联系起来。正如作者自己认识到的那样，这种分布可能存在问题。每个地点的访问条件和实地工作的广度都有很大不同。这种不平衡导致撒哈拉案例的更大发展，这一点得到了更彻底的说明。此外，这些不同的空间和年代已经在现有的学术文献中不对称地涵盖了。在西撒哈拉和撒哈拉难民营的情况下，这项工作正从历史和人类学的角度乘着专着学术热潮的浪潮。对赤道几内亚和摩洛哥占领的西撒哈拉的研究情况大不相同，学术界对这些地方的关注要有限得多，尽管并非完全没有。对这两个研究不平等的空间进行比较是 Allan 方法的一个关键挑战，这一努力得益于大量的理论工作。作者的出发点之一是女权主义理论，她在整个研究中广泛使用了这一理论；她描绘了具体的性别压迫情况以及妇女抵抗这些情况的方式。的想法