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Author Shaw, Carolyn Martin

Title Colonial Inscriptions : Race, Sex, and Class in Kenya
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (262 pages)
Contents Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction: Social Theory and Colonialism; Chapter 2. The Production of Women: Kikuyu Gender and Politics at the Beginning of the Colonial Era; Chapter 3. Kikuyu Women and Sexuality; Chapter 4. Louis Leakey and the Kikuyu; Chapter 5. The Ethnographic Past: Jomo Kenyatta and Friends; Chapter 6. Mau Mau Discourses; Chapter 7. Race, Class, Empire, and Sexuality; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary Explores how images of African colonialism have been influenced by European and American racism and sexual fantasies
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Subject Power (Social sciences) -- Kenya
Women -- Kenya -- Social conditions
Colonial influence
Power (Social sciences)
Social conditions
Women -- Social conditions
SUBJECT Kenya -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85072007
Kenya -- History -- 1895-1963. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85072000
Kenya -- Colonial influence
Subject Kenya
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816686179
0816686173