| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 101 pages) |
| Series |
Critical African Studies in Gender and Sexuality |
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Critical African studies in gender and sexuality.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 and society, recasting roles, and informing frech conceptualization of African girlhood and womanhood. Muhonja's interdisciplinary analysis and writing journeys through the different stages of girlhood and womanhood as ritualized by Kenya's twenty-first 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--back cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 83-95) and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Middle class women -- Kenya -- 21st century
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Women -- Kenya -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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Girls -- Kenya -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Girls -- Social conditions
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Middle class women
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Women -- Social conditions
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Kenya
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021677871 |
| ISBN |
9781498534345 |
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1498534341 |
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