| Variant title |
Womanhood and girlhood in 21st century middle class Kenya : disrupting patri-centered frameworks |
| Series |
Critical African Studies in Gender and Sexuality
Critical African studies in gender and sexuality. ^A1414515
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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. |
| Abstract |
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 note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 83-95) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017959037 |
| ISBN | 9781498534338 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | 1498534333 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | (electronic) |
| Standard identifier# |
40027881021 |
