Tabitha M Kanogo

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Entwining archival material and oral testimony, Kanogo emphasizes women's 'opportunities for physical and cultural migration from old ways of life to new ones' (p.

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. A constant thread throughout the book is that the examination of individual life cases reveals the complex and multifaceted nature of Kenyan women’s mobility and self-assertion. Please also list any non-financial associations or interests (personal, professional, political, institutional, religious or other) that a reasonable reader would want to know about in relation to the submitted work.Oxford: James Currey Publishers; Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press; Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers, 2005.

The pertinent institutions and practices include the legal and cultural status of women, clitoridectomy, dowry, marriage, maternity and motherhood, and formal education.Of all the processes of rapid social change, the final chapter demonstrates education had the greatest transformative effect for young women, but was a common site of contestation between male heads of households and their junior female relatives. Juggling household responsibilities and an academic career alongside her husband’s hectic political life was too great a burden for their marriage. The transformations that resulted from these reworkings involved the negotiation and redefinition of the meaning of individual liberties and of women's agency, along with the reconceptualization of kinship relations and of community. In African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya, 1900-50, Tabitha Kanogo utilizes archival sources and interviews to interrogate political and sociocultural structures and practices that shaped and controlled women's lives in colonial Kenya. Clean, with scant underlining on the first 5 pages only, and unworn with a slight curl to the front cover.