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Womanhood and Girlhood in Twenty-First Century Middle Class Kenya : Disrupting Patri-Centered Frameworks.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Gender and Sexuality in Africa and the Diaspora SeriesPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (131 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498534345
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Womanhood and Girlhood in Twenty-First Century Middle Class KenyaDDC classification:
  • 305.42096762
LOC classification:
  • HQ1796.5 .M846 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Elective Lone Parenting, New Matrilines, and Matriarchies -- Chapter Two: Usichana wa Ubabi -- Chapter Three: The Production of Bridehood -- Chapter Four: Wifing Bodies(Re)negotiating Selfhood -- Chapter Five: New Spaces, New Identities, New Languages -- References -- Index -- About the Author.
Summary: This examination of Kenya's middle class demonstrates how contemporary social performances of femaleness are disrupting and complicating conceptions of gender and gendered identities and institutions. This book will alter scholarship of female gender identity in Kenya, forcing the creation of new, responsive action for African girls and women.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Elective Lone Parenting, New Matrilines, and Matriarchies -- Chapter Two: Usichana wa Ubabi -- Chapter Three: The Production of Bridehood -- Chapter Four: Wifing Bodies(Re)negotiating Selfhood -- Chapter Five: New Spaces, New Identities, New Languages -- References -- Index -- About the Author.

This examination of Kenya's middle class demonstrates how contemporary social performances of femaleness are disrupting and complicating conceptions of gender and gendered identities and institutions. This book will alter scholarship of female gender identity in Kenya, forcing the creation of new, responsive action for African girls and women.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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