Author: Cora Ann PresleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nationalism
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
The Transformation of Kikuyu Women and Their Nationalism
Author: Cora Ann PresleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nationalism
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Kikuyu Women, The Mau Mau Rebellion, And Social Change In Kenya
Author: Cora Ann PresleyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042971422X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Based on rare oral data from women participants in the "Mau Mau" rebellion, this book chronicles changes in women's domestic reproduction, legal status, and gender roles that took place under colonial rule. The book links labour activism, cultural nationalism, and the more overtly political issues of land alienation, judicial control, and character
The Power of the Oath
Author: Mickie Mwanzia KosterPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1580465463
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
C Survey Ritual Analysis 2008 and Mungiki Survey Analysis 2011 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Women in Twentieth-Century Africa
Author: Iris BergerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521517079
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Explores the paradoxical image of African women as exceptionally oppressed, but also as strong, resourceful and rebellious.
Trouble Showed the Way
Author: Claire C. RobertsonPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253333605
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Relates women's involvement in the staples trade to enhanced self-confidence, the rise of women's organizations, and changes in government policies. Examining this commodity, often taken for granted like the women traders, the author suggests other areas of exploration - women developing new relationships to their world.
From Divided Pasts to Cohesive Futures
Author: Hiroyuki HinoPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108476600
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
Offers an insightful yet readable study of the paths - and challenges - to social cohesion in Africa, by experienced historians, economists and political scientists.
In Resistance
Author: Gary Y. OkihiroPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Comforts of Home
Author: Luise WhitePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226895009
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
"This history is . . . the first fully-fleshed story of African Nairobi in all of its complexity which foregrounds African experiences. Given the overwhelming white dominance in the written sources, it is a remarkable achievement."—Claire Robertson, International Journal of African Historical Studies "White's book . . . takes a unique approach to a largely unexplored aspect of African History. It enhances our understanding of African social history, political economy, and gender studies. It is a book that deserves to be widely read."—Elizabeth Schmidt, American Historical Review
Gender, Ethnicity, and Violence in Kenya’s Transitions to Democracy
Author: Lyn OssomePublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498558313
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Critiquing the valorization of democracy as a means of containing violence and stabilizing political contestation, this book draws links between the democratization process and sexual/gendered violence observed against women during electioneering periods in Kenya. The book shows the contradictory relationship between democracy and gendered violence as being largely influenced in the first instance by the capitalist interests vested in the colonial state and its imperative to exploit laboring women; secondly, in the nature of the postcolonial state and politics largely captured by ethnic, bourgeois class interests; and third, influenced by neoliberal political ideology that has remained largely disarticulated from women's structural positions in Kenyan society. It argues that colonial capitalist interests established certain patterns of gender exploitation that extended into the postcolonial period such that the indigenous bourgeoisie took the form of an ethnicized elite. Ethnicity shaped politics and neoliberal political ideology further blocked women’s integration into politics in substantive ways. It concludes that it is not so much the norms and values of liberal democracy that assist in understanding women’s exclusion, but rather the structural dynamics that have shaped women’s experiences of democratic politics. In this way, gender violence in the context of democratization and electoral violence with its gendered manifestation can be fully understood as deeply embedded in the history of the structural dynamics of colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchalism in Kenya.
European Decolonization
Author: Martin ThomasPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351938681
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
This collection brings together twenty-one key articles that explore the nature and impact of colonial withdrawal. Ranging across all the European colonial powers, the articles discuss various aspects of decolonization, including the role of political violence, changing popular attitudes to empire and the inter-actions between colonial conflict and Cold War.