LEADER 03249nam 2200481 450 001 9910822566303321 005 20220519171816.0 010 $a1-4985-5831-3 035 $a(CKB)4340000000261301 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5325403 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5325403 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11532164 035 $a(OCoLC)1021065071 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000261301 100 $a20220519d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aGender, ethnicity, and violence in Kenya's transitions to democracy $estates of violence /$fby Lyn Ossome 210 1$aLanham, Maryland :$cLexington Books,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (237 pages) 225 1 $aCritical African studies in gender and sexuality 311 $a1-4985-5830-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover -- 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. 330 $aGender, Ethnicity, and Violence in Kenya's Transitions to Democracy examines gendered violence in the context of multiparty politics in Kenya, placing it in the historical milieu of colonial rule and its legacies of the ethnicization of both state and society. 410 0$aCritical African studies in gender and sexuality. 606 $aPolitical violence$zKenya$xHistory 607 $aKenya$xPolitics and government$y1978-2002 607 $aKenya$xPolitics and government$y2002- 615 0$aPolitical violence$xHistory. 676 $a307.1412096762 700 $aOssome$b Lyn$01664516 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822566303321 996 $aGender, ethnicity, and violence in Kenya's transitions to democracy$94022552 997 $aUNINA