Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya : Leadership, Representation, and Social Change /

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In education, journalism, legislative politics, social justice, health, law, and other arenas, Muslim women across Kenya are emerging as leaders in local, national, and international contexts, advancing reforms through their activism. The author draws on extensive interviews with six such women, rev...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alidou, Ousseina (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women civic leaders.
Muslim women > Social conditions.
Musulmanes > Kenya > Conditions sociales > 21e siecle.
Femmes leaders > Kenya.
Muslim women > Kenya > Social conditions > 21st century.
Women civic leaders > Kenya.
Kenya.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:In education, journalism, legislative politics, social justice, health, law, and other arenas, Muslim women across Kenya are emerging as leaders in local, national, and international contexts, advancing reforms through their activism. The author draws on extensive interviews with six such women, revealing how their religious and moral beliefs shape reform movements that bridge ethnic divides and foster alliances in service of creating a just, multicultural, multiethnic, and multireligious democratic citizenship. -- Description from publisher website.
Physical Description:1 online resource (247 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780299294632

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