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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795057603321

Autore

Ossome Lyn

Titolo

Gender, ethnicity, and violence in Kenya's transitions to democracy : states of violence / / by Lyn Ossome

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

1-4985-5831-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 pages)

Collana

Critical African studies in gender and sexuality

Disciplina

307.1412096762

Soggetti

Political violence - Kenya - History

Kenya Politics and government 1978-2002

Kenya Politics and government 2002-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Gender, Ethnicity, and Violence in Kenya's Transitions to Democracy -- Critical African Studies in Gender and Sexuality -- Gender, Ethnicity, and Violence in Kenya's Transitions to Democracy: States of Violence -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Sexual Violence in Kenya's Electoral Context -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Violent Challenges to Democracy -- Democracy's Promise and Gendered Limitations of its Liberal Form -- Conceptual Worlds of Sexual Violence -- Ethnicization of Security, Insecurity, and Violence in Kenya (1963-2007) -- Ethnicization of State Security Apparatus (1963-2007) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2 -- Women's Agency in Transition -- Women's Agency and Resistance in the Early Colonial Period -- Notes -- Chapter 3 -- Gendered and Violent Exclusions in Kenya's Multiparty Electoral Politics (1989-2008) -- Gendered Struggles for Political Space and the Politics of Co-optation in the Postcolonial State -- Notes -- Chapter 4 -- Religious Movements and Gendered Violence in the Multiparty Era -- Contemporary Religious Movements in Kenya:  Origins and Struggles for Democracy -- Notes -- Chapter 5 -- Women's Organizations and Multiparty Politics in Kenya (1989-2008) -- Setting a Feminist Agenda in Postindependence Kenya -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Feminist Emancipatory Politics under Liberal Democracy -- Notes --



Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

Sommario/riassunto

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.