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Gender and Sexuality in Kenyan Societies

Author : Besi Brillian Muhonja
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666917486
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Book Synopsis Gender and Sexuality in Kenyan Societies by : Besi Brillian Muhonja

Download or read book Gender and Sexuality in Kenyan Societies written by Besi Brillian Muhonja and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Gender and Sexuality in Kenyan Societies: Centering the Human and the Humane in Critical Studies, edited by Besi Brillian Muhonja and Babacar M’Baye, contributors explore the application of ubuntu/utu responsive perspectives and methods to critical studies. Through the lens of ubuntu/utu, the contributors to this Kenya-focused volume draw from the diverse fields of postcolonial studies, literary studies, history, anthropology, sociology, political science, environmental studies, media studies, and development studies, among others, to demonstrate the urgency and necessity of humane scholarship/research in gender and queer studies. By centering decolonial approaches and the human and humane, concentrating on subjects and identities that have been largely neglected in national and scholarly debates, the chapters are subversive, complex, and inclusive. They advance within Kenyan studies themes and elements of alternative, non-binary, variant, and non-heteronormative gender identities, sexualities, and voices, as well as approaches to doing knowledge. Underscoring the timeliness of such a text is evidence rendered in sections of the collection highlighting the significance of ubuntu/utu-centric scholarship. Challenging the erasure of the human in academic works, the chapters in this volume look inward and locate the voices and experiences of Kenyan peoples as the pivotal locus of analysis and epistemological derivation.

Gender and Sexuality in Ghanaian Societies

Author : Martha Donkor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793628459
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Book Synopsis Gender and Sexuality in Ghanaian Societies by : Martha Donkor

Download or read book Gender and Sexuality in Ghanaian Societies written by Martha Donkor and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender and Sexuality in Ghanaian Societies explores cultural dynamics embedded in the interstices of agency, vulnerability, and power within patriarchal structures that seek to regulate the sexual lives of women in Ghana. Emphasizing the centrality of gender as a motive force for sexual expression, the book stresses that contemporary Ghanaian women's sexual expressions are caught at the intersection of traditional gender expectations of heteronormativity and women’s perceptions of how heteronormativity should operate in their lives. The book's emphasis on women's agency is significant because it highlights a flaw in earlier, Western accounts of African women's lives under Africa's special brand of patriarchy that held women in total subjection to men. Gender and Sexuality debunks that trope and presents Ghanaian women's dynamism, resilience, and vulnerabilities embedded in the diverse cultures in which they live.

Gender, Youth Sexuality, and HIV/AIDS

Author : Eunice Kamaara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Youth Sexuality, and HIV/AIDS written by Eunice Kamaara and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women, Sexuality and the Changing Social Order

Author : Beth Maina Ahlberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000593576
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Women, Sexuality and the Changing Social Order by : Beth Maina Ahlberg

Download or read book Women, Sexuality and the Changing Social Order written by Beth Maina Ahlberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1991, examines the effect of government policies and social restrictions on the reproductive behaviour and family life of the women of Kenya, especially the Kikuyu people. Importation of techniques for social and behavioural regulation from the developed nations, the social restructuring that followed the colonial intervention, the Mau Mau uprisings and current widespread concern with AIDS have disrupted traditional influences on Kenyan reproductive behaviour and family life. In response to these changes, women mobilised into a movement comprised of small local women’s groups scattered throughout Kenya that attempt to educate and influence both its members and government policy. The successes and failures of this movement offer important lessons for the rest of Africa and the developing world.

Womanhood and Girlhood in Twenty-First Century Middle Class Kenya

Author : Besi Brillian Muhonja
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498534341
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Book Synopsis Womanhood and Girlhood in Twenty-First Century Middle Class Kenya by : Besi Brillian Muhonja

Download or read book Womanhood and Girlhood in Twenty-First Century Middle Class Kenya written by Besi Brillian Muhonja and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-12-29 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of twenty first century girlhoods and womanhoods charts a new area of scholarship on Kenya. The chapters investigate questions related to how new rituals of girlhood and womanhood that materialize when religious, indigenous, and foreign worlds encounter each other are re-structuring family and society, recasting roles, and informing fresh conceptualizations of African girlhood and womanhood. The author’s interdisciplinary analysis and writing journeys through the different stages of girlhood and womanhood as ritualized by Kenya’s 21st century middle class, and teases out the implications of these peculiarities to identity (re)creation and the restructuring of societies’ organs, and traditionally gendered institutions. Applying a critical African studies lens, the arguments in this book center women as originators of action and thought without inquiring into a male other. Essentially, this work disrupts patri-centered constructions and examinations of female bodies and identities. The resulting deductions inform on the substratum of Kenyan girls and women’s self-definitions as manifest through their experiences and ritualized practices, and articulate the impact of the performances of these bodies and identities on Kenyan and global societies.

Ambiguous Pleasures

Author : Rachel Spronk
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 085745479X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Ambiguous Pleasures written by Rachel Spronk and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among both male and female young urban professionals in Nairobi, sexuality is a key to achieving a ‘modern’ identity. These young men and women see themselves as the avant garde of a new Africa, while they also express the recurring worry of how to combine an ‘African’ identity with the new lifestyles with which they are experimenting. By focusing on public debates and their preoccupations with issues of African heritage, gerontocratic power relations and conventional morality on the one hand, and personal sexual relationships, intimacy and self-perceptions on the other, this study works out the complexities of sexuality and culture in the context of modernity in an African society. It moves beyond an investigation of a health or development perspective of sexuality and instead examines desire, pleasure and eroticism, revealing new insights into the methodology and theory of the study of sexuality within the social sciences. Sexuality serves as a prism for analysing how social developments generate new notions of self in postcolonial Kenya and is a crucial component towards understanding the way people recognize and deal with modern changes in their personal lives.

Gender and Development

Author : Emily Awino Onyango
Publisher : Langham Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783684909
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Development written by Emily Awino Onyango and published by Langham Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a long time African history has been dominated by western perspectives through predominantly male accounts of colonial governments and missionaries. In contrast, Dr Emily Onyango provides an African history of mission, education development and women’s roles in Kenya. Based on archival research and interviews of primary sources this book explores the relationship of these areas of history with each other, focusing on the Luo culture and the period of 1895 to 2000. With the pre-colonial African context as the foundation for understanding and writing history, Dr Onyango uses gender to analyze the role of Christian missionaries in the development of women’s education and their position in Kenyan society. The result of this well-researched study is not only a challenge to the traditional understanding of history, but also a counternarrative to the common view that to be liberated African women must disregard Christianity. Rather she looks at the importance Christianity plays in helping women establish themselves economically, politically and socially, in Kenyan society. This research is a vital contribution to women’s history and the history of Christianity in Africa.

Researching AIDS, Sexuality and Gender

Author : Nyokabi Kamau
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9966040293
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Researching AIDS, Sexuality and Gender written by Nyokabi Kamau and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2013 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current HIV and AIDS regime has opened up unknown vistas in intellectual pursuits and knowledge creation. One such newly opened up area of research is studying HIV and AIDS in relation to gender issues. However, owing to the devastating nature of the epidemic, most studies tend to focus on women merely as an "at risk" population leaving aside the wider sociological dimensions that pertain to women's sexuality in general, issues of AIDS related stigma and discrimination and how it impacts on women's careers as economic contributors to society. The uniqueness of the present study lies in the fact that it embodies the author's triangulated research into the tripartite dimensions of HIV and AIDS, women's sexuality, and gender-sociology, all against the backdrop of analysing actual experiences of career women in Kenyan universities.

The Routledge Handbook of LGBTQ Identity in Organizations and Society

Author : Julie A. Gedro
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 104002484X
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of LGBTQ Identity in Organizations and Society written by Julie A. Gedro and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexuality, gender, gender identity, and gender expression are fluid constructs, and the ways in which identity development intersects with organizations and exists in society are complex. The book is comprised of a range of multi-disciplinary and globally inspired perspectives representing leading-edge scholarship by authors from over a dozen countries on a range of issues and contexts regarding LGBTQ identity and experience. It is intended for a wide readership: those who are in LGBTQ-related academic fields; those who want to broaden their coursework by offering supplemental readings that center the perspectives of LGBTQ identities; and those who want to acquire knowledge and education on the subject of LGBTQ identity. There are 36 chapters written by scholars in fields such as social work, law, queer studies, business, human resource management and development, entrepreneurship, criminal justice, economics, marketing, religion, architecture, sport, theater, psychology, human ecology, and adult education. The chapters can be read in sequence, and the book can also be used as a reference work for which educators, practitioners, and non-academics can identify and select particular chapters that inform areas of inquiry.

Gender, Ethnicity, and Violence in Kenya’s Transitions to Democracy

Author : Lyn Ossome
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498558313
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Ethnicity, and Violence in Kenya’s Transitions to Democracy written by Lyn Ossome and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender, Ethnicity, and Violence in Kenya’s Transitions to Democracy: States of Violence examines gendered violence in the context of multiparty politics in Kenya, placing it in the historical milieu of colonial rule and its legacies of the ethnicization of both state and society. It offers an extensive account of the ways in which liberal democratic politics have produced violent outcomes for women./span

Kenyan, Christian, Queer

Author : Adriaan van Klinken
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271085606
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Kenyan, Christian, Queer written by Adriaan van Klinken and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular narratives cite religion as the driving force behind homophobia in Africa, portraying Christianity and LGBT expression as incompatible. Without denying Christianity’s contribution to the stigma, discrimination, and exclusion of same-sex-attracted and gender-variant people on the continent, Adriaan van Klinken presents an alternative narrative, foregrounding the ways in which religion also appears as a critical site of LGBT activism. Taking up the notion of “arts of resistance,” Kenyan, Christian, Queer presents four case studies of grassroots LGBT activism through artistic and creative expressions—including the literary and cultural work of Binyavanga Wainaina, the “Same Love” music video produced by gay gospel musician George Barasa, the Stories of Our Lives anthology project, and the LGBT-affirming Cosmopolitan Affirming Church. Through these case studies, Van Klinken demonstrates how Kenyan traditions, black African identities, and Christian beliefs and practices are being navigated, appropriated, and transformed in order to allow for queer Kenyan Christian imaginations. Transdisciplinary in scope and poignantly intimate in tone, Kenyan, Christian, Queer opens up critical avenues for rethinking the nature and future of the relationship between Christianity and queer activism in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa.

Gender, Sexuality and Development

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 908790472X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Sexuality and Development written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a timely contribution to the field of gender and development in the face of the looming failure of international development targets, the deepening HIV/AIDS pandemic and the increased incidence of civil conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa.

African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya, 1900-50

Author : Tabitha Kanogo
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 0852554451
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (525 download)

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Book Synopsis African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya, 1900-50 by : Tabitha Kanogo

Download or read book African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya, 1900-50 written by Tabitha Kanogo and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2005 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within a broad analysis of colonial oppurtunities for physical, social and educational mobility, Kanogo shows how African and British male authorities tried, with uncertain opinions and from different perspectives, to control female initiatives, and how, to very varying degrees, women managed to achieve increasing measures of control over their own lives. North America: Ohio U Press; Kenya: EAEP

Intersectionality and Women’s Access to Justice in Africa

Author : J. Jarpa Dawuni
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793632685
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Book Synopsis Intersectionality and Women’s Access to Justice in Africa by : J. Jarpa Dawuni

Download or read book Intersectionality and Women’s Access to Justice in Africa written by J. Jarpa Dawuni and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intersectionality and Women's Access to Justice, edited by J. Jarpa Dawuni, propounds layered intersectionality as a paradigm for examining how gendered factors affect women's access to justice, whether as judges or litigants. Through intersectional and decolonial frameworks, the contributors analyze the lived experiences of women and their access to justice by situating the courtroom as both a spatial and a temporal arena for seeking justice (as litigants) and for seeking access to the bench (as judges). This book examines patterns of mutually reinforcing discriminatory practices that women share based on common gender identities and depending on which identities are at play at a given point in time in both traditional and statutory courts. The book provides recommendations for various justice sector providers.

Postcolonial Imbusa

Author : Mutale Mulenga Kaunda
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1666926256
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Imbusa written by Mutale Mulenga Kaunda and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2023 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using decolonial and postcolonial nego-feminism, Postcolonial Imbusa: Bemba Women's Agency, and Indigenous Cultural Systems examines the daily lives of Bemba women and how imbusa has defined the behaviors and relations between women and men at home, church, and work.

Gender and the Culture of Fertility Among the Giriama of Kenya

Author : Monica Udvardy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and the Culture of Fertility Among the Giriama of Kenya written by Monica Udvardy and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Legislating Gender and Sexuality in Africa

Author : Lydia Boyd
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 029932740X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Legislating Gender and Sexuality in Africa written by Lydia Boyd and published by University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, a more formalized and forceful shift has emerged in the legislative realm when it comes to gender and sexual justice in Africa. This rigorous, timely volume brings together leading and rising scholars across disciplines to evaluate these ideological struggles and reconsider the modern history of human rights on the continent. Broad in geographic coverage and topical in scope, chapters investigate such subjects as marriage legislation in Mali, family violence experienced by West African refugees, sex education in Uganda, and statutes criminalizing homosexuality in Senegal. These case studies highlight the nuances and contradictions in the varied ways key actors make arguments for or against rights. They also explore how individual countries draft and implement laws that attempt to address the underlying problems. Legislating Gender and Sexuality in Africa details how legal efforts in the continent can often be moralizing enterprises, illuminating how these processes are closely tied to notions of ethics, personhood, and citizenship. The contributors provide new appraisals of recent events, with fresh arguments about the relationships between local and global fights for rights. This interdisciplinary approach will appeal to scholars in African studies, anthropology, history, and gender studies.