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Book Synopsis Politics of the Womb by : Lynn Thomas
Download or read book Politics of the Womb written by Lynn Thomas and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-08-20 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In more than a metaphorical sense, the womb has proven to be an important site of political struggle in and about Africa. By examining the political significance—and complex ramifications—of reproductive controversies in twentieth-century Kenya, this book explores why and how control of female initiation, abortion, childbirth, and premarital pregnancy have been crucial to the exercise of colonial and postcolonial power. This innovative book enriches the study of gender, reproduction, sexuality, and African history by revealing how reproductive controversies challenged long-standing social hierarchies and contributed to the construction of new ones that continue to influence the fraught politics of abortion, birth control, female genital cutting, and HIV/AIDS in Africa.
Book Synopsis Status of Women in Kenya by : K. Srujana
Download or read book Status of Women in Kenya written by K. Srujana and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Women, visibility and morality in Kenyan popular media by : Ligaga, Dina
Download or read book Women, visibility and morality in Kenyan popular media written by Ligaga, Dina and published by NISC (Pty) Ltd. This book was released on 2020-02-16 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women, visibility and morality in Kenyan popular media explores familiar constructions of femininity to assess ways in which it circulates in discourse, both stereotypically and otherwise. It assesses the meanings of such discourses and their articulations in various public platforms in Kenya. The book draws together theoretical questions on ‘pre-convened’ scripts that contain or condition how women can circulate in public. The book asks questions about particular interpretations of women’s bodies that are considered transgressive or unruly and why these bodies become significant symbolic sites for the generation of knowledge on morality and sexuality. The book also poses questions about genre and representations of femininity. The assertion made is that for knowledges of femininity to circulate effectively, they must be melodramatic, spectacular and scandalous. Ultimately, the book asks how such a theorisation of popular modes of representation enable a better understanding of the connections between gender, sexuality and violence in Kenya.
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 James Currey (GB). This book was released on 2005 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most interesting general Kenyan social history that I have had the pleasure to read for many years. It fills a large gap in the colonial history of Kenyan women as they negotiated changes in the most domestic areas of their experience. - John Lonsdale, Trinity College, Cambridge
Book Synopsis Women, Power, and Economic Change by : Regina Smith Oboler
Download or read book Women, Power, and Economic Change written by Regina Smith Oboler and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author examines the impact of colonialism and the cash economy on the Nandi, a semi-pastoral and patrilineal people of western Kenya, emphasizing changes in women's and men's economic roles and their respective relations to property and to each other. Since the sex roles associated with production and property relations are linked to sex roles in other areas - in the marriage system, husband-wife relations, kinship, cultural ideals of male and female, ritual relations, participation in community affairs - these areas are also analyzed. The author asks whether the changes in Nandi society have been favorable or unfavorable to women. Has their economic position improved or declined as a result of colonialism and socioeconomic change? Has sexual stratification increased or decreased? How have different categories of women - wives, widows, never-married women, participants in woman-woman marriages - been differently affected by changed circumstances? Although most of the book is ethnographic in nature, providing a detailed account of Nandi inter-gender roles in the context of economic history and at the processes that have induced changes in the respective roles of men and women.
Book Synopsis Law and the Status of Women in Kenya by : Kivutha Kibwana
Download or read book Law and the Status of Women in Kenya written by Kivutha Kibwana and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis I Laugh So I Won't Cry by : Helena Halperin
Download or read book I Laugh So I Won't Cry written by Helena Halperin and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helena Halperin presents portraits of a diverse selection of Kenyan women, describing the struggles they face in everyday life, including childrearing, work & unemployment, genital cutting, ethnic tensions & how they are responding to a new government that is promising huge reforms
Book Synopsis The Physical Abuse of Kenyan Women and Girls by : T. Johnston
Download or read book The Physical Abuse of Kenyan Women and Girls written by T. Johnston and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gender and Development by : Emily Awino Onyango
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.
Book Synopsis Three Swahili Women by : Sarah Mirza
Download or read book Three Swahili Women written by Sarah Mirza and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1989-05-22 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is altogether a most worthwhile book, a fine example of a growing genre of African literature... " -- Choice "Mirza and Strobel let these women speak about their lives in their own words, and the results are wonderful.... This is an excellent book with which to introduce students both to Africa and to life histories... " -- American Historical Review This exploration of the lives of three Mombasa women reveals the complexity of Swahili society -- its ethnic diversity, the impact of slavery, and the varied reactions to colonialism and Western culture. They illustrate the rich interactions within the women's community, focused on family and festive or ritual occasions.
Book Synopsis Women's Education and Roles in Kenya by : Audrey C. Smock
Download or read book Women's Education and Roles in Kenya written by Audrey C. Smock and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Women of Kenya by : Kenya. Women's Bureau
Download or read book Women of Kenya written by Kenya. Women's Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deze brochure werd geschreven ter voorbereiding van de VN-Vrouwendecenniumconferentie, die gehouden werd in juli 1985 te Nairobi. De maatschappelijke positie van de Keniaanse vrouw, en dan in het bijzonder de verchuivingen die hierin plaatsvonden gedurende het voorbije decennium, worden hierin, in hoofdzaak aan de hand van statistisch materiaal, weergegeven. Hoofdstuk twee is gewijd aan onderwijs en geletterdheid (p. 8-23).
Book Synopsis Women of Kenya by : Muthoni G. Likimani
Download or read book Women of Kenya written by Muthoni G. Likimani and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Passbook Number F.47927 by : Muthoni G. Likimani
Download or read book Passbook Number F.47927 written by Muthoni G. Likimani and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis I Laugh So I Won't Cry by : Helena Halperin
Download or read book I Laugh So I Won't Cry written by Helena Halperin and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helena Halperin presents portraits of a diverse selection of Kenyan women, describing the struggles they face in everyday life, including childrearing, work & unemployment, genital cutting, ethnic tensions & how they are responding to a new government that is promising huge reforms
Download or read book Women and Autonomy in Kenya written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Politics of the Womb by : Lynn M. Thomas
Download or read book Politics of the Womb written by Lynn M. Thomas and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-08-20 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Thomas's skilled hands, and in her unabashed love of story-telling, intimate events in Kenya help us think more clearly and more critically about Africa in the twentieth century. The politics of the womb are at the core of the colonial experience and of colonial politics…. Africans struggled amongst themselves over the regulation of reproduction, and these layers of intimate strife, and the policies and protests emanating from London and mission hospitals and African homesteads, give us something we haven't had before-- a gendered and transnational colonial history."—Luise White, author of Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa
