Womanhood and girlhood in twenty-first century middle class Kenya : disrupting patri-centered frameworks /

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 restructuring family...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Muhonja, Besi Brillian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated, [2018]
Colección:Critical African studies in gender and sexuality.
Temas:
2000-2099
Middle class women > Kenya > 21st century.
Women > Kenya > Social conditions > 21st century.
Girls > Kenya > Social conditions > 21st century.
Femmes de la classe moyenne > Kenya > 21e siècle.
Femmes > Kenya > Conditions sociales > 21e siècle.
Filles > Kenya > Conditions sociales > 21e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Girls > Social conditions
Middle class women
Women > Social conditions
Kenya
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: middleclassness, women, and girls
  • 1. Elective lone parenting, new matrilines, and matriarchies
  • 2. Usichana wa Ubabi: erasures of ritual and the myth of independence
  • 3. The production of bridehood
  • 4. Wifing bodies (re)negotiating selfhood
  • 5. New spaces, new identities, new languages.

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