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This book explores the history of African womanhood in colonial Kenya.

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“This is the most interesting general Kenyan social history that I have had the pleasure to read for many years. It fills a large gap in the colonial history of Kenyan women as they negotiated changes in the most domestic areas of their experience. Within a broad analysis of colonial opportunities for physical, social and educational mobility, Kanogo shows how African and British male authorities tried, with uncertain opinions and from different perspectives, to control female initiatives, and how, to varying degrees, women managed to achieve increasing measures of control over their own lives.” -- John Lonsdale, Trinity College, Cambridge
“A superb study of how, across the colonial period, the range of indigenous, government, and mission authorities...struggled to control and redefine the cultural and institutional practices that regulated women's lives.” * The Historian *

African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya 19001950

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      Publisher: MJ - Ohio University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780821415672, 978-0821415672
      ISBN10: 0821415670
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      Gender studies: women and girls Social and cultural anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book explores the history of African womanhood in colonial Kenya.

      Trade Review
      “This is the most interesting general Kenyan social history that I have had the pleasure to read for many years. It fills a large gap in the colonial history of Kenyan women as they negotiated changes in the most domestic areas of their experience. Within a broad analysis of colonial opportunities for physical, social and educational mobility, Kanogo shows how African and British male authorities tried, with uncertain opinions and from different perspectives, to control female initiatives, and how, to varying degrees, women managed to achieve increasing measures of control over their own lives.” -- John Lonsdale, Trinity College, Cambridge
      “A superb study of how, across the colonial period, the range of indigenous, government, and mission authorities...struggled to control and redefine the cultural and institutional practices that regulated women's lives.” * The Historian *

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