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

Informationen zum Autor Besi Brillian Muhonja is associate vice provost, scholarship and diversity, equity, and inclusion and professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and African, African American, and diaspora studies at James Madison University. Babacar M’Baye is professor and chair of the Department of English at Kent State University. Klappentext 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 re-structuring family and society, recasting roles, and informing fresh conceptualizations of African girlhood and womanhood. The author's interdisciplinary analysis and writing journeys through the different stages of girlhood and womanhood as ritualized by Kenya's 21st 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. Applying a critical African studies lens, the arguments in this book center women as originators of action and thought without inquiring into a male other. Essentially, this work disrupts patri-centered constructions and examinations of female bodies and identities. The resulting deductions inform on the substratum of Kenyan girls and women's self-definitions as manifest through their experiences and ritualized practices, and articulate the impact of the performances of these bodies and identities on Kenyan and global societies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Elective Lone Parenting, New Matrilines and Matriarchies Chapter 2: Usichana wa Ubabi Erasures of Ritual and the Myth of Independence Chapter 3: The Production of Bridehood Chapter 4: Wifing Bodies (Re)negotiating Selfhood Chapter 5: New Spaces, New Identities, New Languages ...

Product details

• Authors: Besi Brillian Muhonja
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781498534338
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-3433-8
• No. of pages: 130
• Series: Critical African Studies in Ge; Critical African Studies in Gender and Sexuality; Gender and Sexuality in Africa and the Diaspora
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Africa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Motherhood, 21st Century, Kenya, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Politics and government, Regional / International studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: women, Social classes, Parenting: advice and issues, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Gender studies: women and girls