Tabitha M Kanogo

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Chapter one on women’s legal and cultural status covers “the formative, deeply fractured and fluid” period of 1910 to 1930 in which the colonial administration attempted to codify women’s status under customary law. Since her family could afford the cost of private education, she obtained a Catholic education in Kenya and continued her postsecondary studies at Benedictine College in the United States, thanks to a sponsorship from the African American Student Foundation and the Kennedy Airlift program. But at the same time, she acquired global recognition and inspired millions to commit to protecting and rejuvenating the environment by planting trees. Chapter seven on formal education is the richest chapter, analyzing some gripping oral testimony by individual Kenyan women who struggled to obtain secondary and post-secondary education in the 1930s through the 1950s. Tabitha Kanogo's current book project explores diverse situations of child and youth endangerment in colonial and contemporary Africa with a specific focus on Kenya.

In trying to determine the age at which women reached majority (if they did so at all) and thus legally existed independently of fathers and husbands, administrators set out on a path fraught with contradictions. The treatment of education is particularly fine and the preference for a country-wide perspective instead of a local study is welcome. Seiten Gutes Exemplar, geringe Gebrauchsspuren, Cover/SU berieben/bestoßen, Schnitt/Papier nachgedunkelt, innen alles in Ordnung; Good copy, light signs of previous use, cover/dust jacket shows some rubbing/wear, edges/text pages show yellowing/darkening, interior in good condition 221222ah90 ISBN: 9780852550199 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 297. Kanogo traces the squatters' increasing poverty and disillusion and their involvement in Mau Mau, particularly that of the women.Meanwhile, the urban poor are an expanding population with little wiggle room in their crowded cities. While readers with a prior knowledge of colonial Kenya will find little new, they will appreciate the diligent survey of the burgeoning studies of African women. divides the book into seven chapters that explore key sociocultural institutions and practices around which women’s lives were organized and contested: legal and cultural status; sexuality, culture, and the law; clitoridectomy; dowry, marriage, and the law; the medicalization of maternity; and formal education.

Maathai transformed the lives and worldviews of millions of people across socioeconomic and geographic divides, helping some of them overcome their impoverished and dejected livelihoods to become ardent conservationists empowered to improve their lot in life. Colonialism and Gender: Depiction and Control of African Women" in Ripensare La Storia Coloniale, Orientalia Karalitana, Numero 2 — Decembre 1993.Mission Impact on Women in Colonial Kenya" in Women and Missions: Past and Present, Anthropological and Historical Perceptions.