Womanhood and girlhood in twenty-first-century middle class Kenya : disrupting patri-centered frameworks / Besi Brillian Muhonja.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Muhonja, Besi Brillian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Kenya--Social conditions.

Women.

Girls--Kenya--Social conditions.

Girls.

Kenya.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (131 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2018.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4985-3434-1