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When the Light Is Fire : Maasai Schoolgirls in Contemporary Kenya / Heather D. Switzer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Switzer, Heather D., 1970- author.
- Series:
- Illinois scholarship online.
- Illinois scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kajiado District (Kenya)--Social conditions--21st century.
- Kajiado District (Kenya).
- Educational anthropology--Kenya--Kajiado District.
- Educational anthropology.
- Women, Maasai--Kenya--Kajiado District--Social conditions.
- Women, Maasai.
- Maasai (African people)--Education--Kenya--Kajiado District.
- Maasai (African people).
- Girls, Maasai--Education--Kenya--Kajiado District.
- Girls, Maasai.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- A host of international organizations promotes the belief that education will empower Kenya's Maasai girls. Yet the ideas that animate their campaigns often arise from presumptions that reduce the girls themselves to helpless victims of gender-related forms of oppression. Heather D. Switzer's interviews with over 100 Kenyan Maasai schoolgirls challenge the widespread view of education as a silver bullet solution to global poverty. In their own voices, the girls offer incisive insights into their commitments, aspirations, and desires. Switzer weaves this ethnographic material into an astute analysis of historical literature, education and development documents, and theoretical literature.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Previously issued in print: 2018.
- ISBN:
- 9780252050770
- 0252050770
- OCLC:
- 1054093078
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