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

• Autore: Ossome Lyn
• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (237 pages)
• Disciplina: 307.1412096762
• Soggetto topico: Political violence - Kenya - History
• Soggetto geografico: Kenya Politics and government 1978-2002; Kenya Politics and government 2002-
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Gender, ethnicity, and violence in Kenya's transitions to democracy
• ISBN: 1-4985-5831-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910795057603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critical African studies in gender and sexuality.