03249nam 2200481 450 991082256630332120220519171816.01-4985-5831-3(CKB)4340000000261301(MiAaPQ)EBC5325403(Au-PeEL)EBL5325403(CaPaEBR)ebr11532164(OCoLC)1021065071(EXLCZ)99434000000026130120220519d2018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGender, ethnicity, and violence in Kenya's transitions to democracy states of violence /by Lyn OssomeLanham, Maryland :Lexington Books,[2018]©20181 online resource (237 pages)Critical African studies in gender and sexuality1-4985-5830-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Critical African studies in gender and sexuality.Political violenceKenyaHistoryKenyaPolitics and government1978-2002KenyaPolitics and government2002-Political violenceHistory.307.1412096762Ossome Lyn1664516MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822566303321Gender, ethnicity, and violence in Kenya's transitions to democracy4022552UNINA