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RETHINKING PATRIARCHY, RESPECTABILITY, AND WOMEN’S MOBILITY IN ZANZIBAR - Corrie Decker. Mobilizing Zanzibari Women: The Struggle for Respectability and Self-Reliance in Colonial East Africa.New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. xiii + 254 pp. Acknowledgments. Abbreviations. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. $90.00. Cloth. ISBN: 9781137465290. - Akbar Keshodkar. Tourism and Social Change in Post-Socialist Zanzibar: Struggles for Identity, Movement, and Civilization. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2013. xi + 235 pp. Acknowledgments. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $80.00. Cloth. ISBN: 9780739175439. - Elisabeth McMahon. Slavery and Emancipation in Islamic East Africa: From Honor to Respectability. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xxvi + 265 pp. Figures. Preface. Acknowledgments. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $95.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1107025820. - Elke E. Stockreiter. Islamic Law, Gender and Social Change in Post-Abolition Zanzibar.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xv + 279 pp. List of Figures and Tables. Preface. Glossary and Abbreviations. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $99.99. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1107048416.

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Corrie Decker. Mobilizing Zanzibari Women: The Struggle for Respectability and Self-Reliance in Colonial East Africa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. xiii + 254 pp. Acknowledgments. Abbreviations. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. $90.00. Cloth. ISBN: 9781137465290.

Akbar Keshodkar. Tourism and Social Change in Post-Socialist Zanzibar: Struggles for Identity, Movement, and Civilization. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2013. xi + 235 pp. Acknowledgments. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $80.00. Cloth. ISBN: 9780739175439.

Elisabeth McMahon. Slavery and Emancipation in Islamic East Africa: From Honor to Respectability. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xxvi + 265 pp. Figures. Preface. Acknowledgments. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $95.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1107025820.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2015

Ethan R. Sanders*
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Regis University Denver, Coloradoesanders@regis.edu

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