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Womanhood and girlhood in twenty-first century middle class Kenya : disrupting patri-centered frameworks
- Title
- Womanhood and girlhood in twenty-first century middle class Kenya : disrupting patri-centered frameworks / Besi Brillian Muhonja.
- Author
- Muhonja, Besi Brillian
- Publication
- Lanham : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2018]
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- xxvi, 101 pages; 24 cm.
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Critical African Studies in Gender and Sexuality
- Uniform Title
- Critical African studies in gender and sexuality.
- Alternative Title
- Womanhood and girlhood in 21st century middle class Kenya : disrupting patri-centered frameworks
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 83-95) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-297
- ISBN
- 9781498534338
- 1498534333
- LCCN
- 2017959037
- 40027881021
- OCLC
- 1002121596
- Author
- Muhonja, Besi Brillian, author.
- Title
- Womanhood and girlhood in twenty-first century middle class Kenya : disrupting patri-centered frameworks / Besi Brillian Muhonja.
- Publisher
- Lanham : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Critical African Studies in Gender and SexualityCritical African studies in gender and sexuality.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 83-95) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40027881021
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-297