Gender and Sexuality in Kenyan Societies - Centering the Human and the Humane in Critical Studies

This volume explores aspects of gender and sexuality in Kenya through the lens of humane scholarship, philosophies, politics, identities, cosmoses, literatures, languages, cultures, and more.

List of contents

Introduction: Toward Humane Scholarship in Gender and Sexualities
Besi Brillian Muhonja

Feminist Biographies - Telling Our Stories

Betty Wambui

"Beach-boy Elders" and "Young Big-men": Subverting the Temporalities of Aging in Kenya's Ethno-erotic Economies

George Paul Meiu

Redefining the Female Body: The Legislative Process against Female Circumcision in Kenya

Miriam Jerotich Kilimo

Still at a Crossroad: Theories in Activism and Fight for Rights of the LGBTI Community in Kenya

Dorothy Owino Rombo and Anne Namatsi Lutomia

Going on a Real Date: Afro-bubblegum and Female Same Sex Desire in Eastern African Literature

Joya Uraizee

Dimensions of Motherhood in an African World Sense: Ritual and Power among Avalogooli

Besi Brillian Muhonja

When Adult Status Trumps Gender: Recentering Tradition in Politics

Matthew K. Gichohi

Twenty Years After: Gender and Sexuality among Middle-Aged Professionals in Nairobi

Rachel Spronk
Conclusion: Utu/ubuntu: Centering the Human and the Humane in Critical Approaches to Africana Studies
Babacar M'Baye
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors

About the author

Besi Brillian Muhonja is associate vice provost for 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.

Summary

This volume explores aspects of gender and sexuality in Kenya through the lens of humane scholarship, philosophies, politics, identities, cosmoses, literatures, languages, cultures, and more.

Product details

• Authors: BESI BRILLI MUHONJA, Besi Brillian Mbaye Muhonja, Besi Brillian M''''baye Muhonja
• Assisted by: Babacar M¿Baye (Editor), Babacar M’Baye (Editor), Babacar M'baye (Editor), Besi Brillian Muhonja (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781666917475
• ISBN: 978-1-66691-747-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Gender and Sexuality in Africa and the Diaspora; GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN AFRICA
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Gay & Lesbian studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, Gay & Lesbian studies / LGBTQ studies, Gender studies: transgender, transsexual, intersex people, Gender studies: transgender & intersex, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies