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.
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.
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.
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Introduction: Toward Humane Scholarship in Gender and Sexualities Besi Brillian Muhonja 1. Feminist Biographies - Telling Our Stories Betty Wambui 2. "Beach-boy Elders" and "Young Big-men": Subverting the Temporalities of Aging in Kenya's Ethno-erotic Economies George Paul Meiu 3. Redefining the Female Body: The Legislative Process against Female Circumcision in Kenya Miriam Jerotich Kilimo 4. Still at a Crossroad: Theories in Activism and Fight for Rights of the LGBTI Community in Kenya Dorothy Owino Rombo and Anne Namatsi Lutomia 5. Going on a Real Date: Afro-bubblegum and Female Same Sex Desire in Eastern African Literature Joya Uraizee 6. Dimensions of Motherhood in an African World Sense: Ritual and Power among Avalogooli Besi Brillian Muhonja 7. When Adult Status Trumps Gender: Recentering Tradition in Politics Matthew K. Gichohi 8. 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
Introduction: Toward Humane Scholarship in Gender and Sexualities Besi Brillian Muhonja 1. Feminist Biographies - Telling Our Stories Betty Wambui 2. "Beach-boy Elders" and "Young Big-men": Subverting the Temporalities of Aging in Kenya's Ethno-erotic Economies George Paul Meiu 3. Redefining the Female Body: The Legislative Process against Female Circumcision in Kenya Miriam Jerotich Kilimo 4. Still at a Crossroad: Theories in Activism and Fight for Rights of the LGBTI Community in Kenya Dorothy Owino Rombo and Anne Namatsi Lutomia 5. Going on a Real Date: Afro-bubblegum and Female Same Sex Desire in Eastern African Literature Joya Uraizee 6. Dimensions of Motherhood in an African World Sense: Ritual and Power among Avalogooli Besi Brillian Muhonja 7. When Adult Status Trumps Gender: Recentering Tradition in Politics Matthew K. Gichohi 8. 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
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