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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Muhonja, Besi Brillian (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated, [2018]
Series:Critical African studies in gender and sexuality.
Subjects:
2000-2099
Middle class women > Kenya > 21st century.
Women > Kenya > Social conditions > 21st century.
Girls > Kenya > Social conditions > 21st century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Girls > Social conditions
Middle class women
Women > Social conditions
Kenya
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Table of 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.

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