Widow Inheritance and Contested Citizenship in Kenya

Name: Widow Inheritance and Contested Citizenship in Kenya
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Widow Inheritance and Contested Citizenship in KenyaAuthor(s): Awino Okech\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367077679, 978-0367077679\nSynopsis\nThis book examines the practice of widow inheritance in order to explore the intersection between power, gender and sexualities in Kenya. \n\nUsing widow inheritance amongst the Luo of Kenya as a case study, the book explores the role of body politics in the construction of gendered subjects and nations. Widow Inheritance and Contested Citizenship in Kenya unpacks how respectable femininities and wayward sexualities become the sites within which national and state politics are ritualized and where tensions resulting from non-hegemonic performances of both gender and sexuality are resolved. The empirical research that underpins this book is qualitative and grounded in feminist methodology, challenging the erasure of womens narratives in hegemonic epistemologies. \n\nWidow.