Women's Voices, Women's Power : : Dialogues of Resistance from East Africa /

Women's Voices, Women's Power : : Dialogues of Resistance from East Africa / / Judith Abwunza.

Most ethnographic treatments of other cultures restrict the voice of their "subjects"; at most, description and analysis by the observer are accompanied by brief selective "ation. With a methodological openness that may be particularly appropriate to gender studies, anthropologist Jud...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Abwunza, Judith,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1997
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Map One: Kenya and Western Province
  • Map Two: Maragoli
  • PART I: UNEARTHING THE PATRIARCHAL WORLD
  • Introduction to Part I
  • Chapter One: Avalogoli
  • Chapter Two: Women's Power and Voice
  • Conclusion to Part I
  • PART II: WOMEN'S WORK
  • Introduction to Part II
  • Chapter Three: "Home Work"
  • Chapter Four: "Outside Work"
  • Conclusion to Part II
  • PART III: BACK DOOR DECISIONS
  • Introduction to Part III
  • Chapter Five: The House and the Yard
  • Chapter Six: Expanding the Back Door
  • Conclusion to Part III
  • PART IV: "POSTERITY" AND "PROGRESS," NEEDS AND MEANS
  • Introduction to Part IV
  • Chapter Seven: She Eats for Nothing!
  • Chapter Eight: "Silika—To Make Our Lives Shine"
  • Conclusion to Part IV
  • PART V: BURYING THE PATRIARCHAL WORLD?
  • Chapter Nine: Omwene Hango Default
  • Glossary
  • Endnotes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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