How they were treated, how they dressed, if they were to be educated, if and how they married, if they ever experienced sexual pleasure, and even if they were allowed to live were seemingly in the hands of African and British male authority figures. Yet Kenyan women in the first half of the twentieth century nevertheless managed to find their identities for themselves and establish at least some level of control over their own lives. Kanogo (history, U. of California at Berkeley) describes...
1'Capax Doli'? : debating the legal status of African women152Sexuality in culture & law423Becoming Kavirondo : clitoridectomy, ethnicity & womanhood734Debating dowry : 'a daughter is like a bank'1045Legislation marriage1296The medicalization & regulation of maternity1647Girls are frogs : girls, missions & education197