Lyn Ossome

Gender, Ethnicity, and Violence in Kenya's Transitions to Democracy

States of Violence

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Gender, Ethnicity, and Violence in Kenya's Transitions to Democracy examines gendered violence in the context of multiparty politics in Kenya, placing it in the historical milieu of colonial rule and its legacies of the ethnicization of both state and society.

Produktdetails

• Gender and Sexuality in Africa and the Diaspora
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9781498558303
• ISBN-10: 1498558305
• Artikelnr.: 51140758

Autorenporträt

Lyn Ossome is senior research fellow at the Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction I.Violent Challenges to Democracy II.Women's Agency in
Transition: From Colonialism to Independence III.Gendered and Violent
Exclusions in Kenya's Multiparty Electoral Politics (1989-2008)
IV.Religious Movements and Gendered Violence in the Multiparty Era
V.Women's Organizations and Multiparty Politics in Kenya (1989-2008)
Conclusion Bibliography