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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457647303321

Autore

Shaw Carolyn Martin <1944->

Titolo

Colonial inscriptions [[electronic resource] ] : race, sex, and class in Kenya / / Carolyn Martin Shaw

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1995

ISBN

0-8166-8617-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Disciplina

306/.096762

Soggetti

Power (Social sciences) - Kenya

Women - Kenya - Social conditions

Electronic books.

Kenya Social conditions

Kenya History 1895-1963

Kenya Colonial influence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-241) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction: Social Theory and Colonialism; Chapter 2. The Production of Women: Kikuyu Gender and Politics at the Beginning of the Colonial Era; Chapter 3. Kikuyu Women and Sexuality; Chapter 4. Louis Leakey and the Kikuyu; Chapter 5. The Ethnographic Past: Jomo Kenyatta and Friends; Chapter 6. Mau Mau Discourses; Chapter 7. Race, Class, Empire, and Sexuality; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Explores how images of African colonialism have been influenced by European and American racism and sexual fantasies.