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Time for Harvest : Women and Constitution Making in Kenya Price Ksh.: 0.00 Price US$.: 0.00 ISBN: 9789966792105 Out Of Stock |
| From the bleak days of severe marginalization; days when words such as ‘women’s empowerment’ or ‘affirmative action’ were taboo in Kenya, Time for Harvest: Women and Constitution Making in Kenya captivatingly traces women’s struggles to change their status, their lives and their entire destiny. It is a brilliant exposition of the sheer ingenuity, perseverance and tenacity to contribute to the attainment of an all inclusive Constitution that banishes, inter alia, gender discrimination in all spheres of life, including social, economic, cultural, and political spheres. In this way, it opens up massive space for Kenyan women to ‘exhale’. Wanjiku deftly tells the story of many great women actors in the struggle and the nature of their contribution while sparing us the pain that was suffered by individual women and their families as they identified with what at times seemed like mission impossible. They must be the women who, in her words, ‘have names, hearts that ache, eyes that weep, feet that hurt.’ The book is suitable for the general reader as well as scholars in cultural and feminist studies. Students of politics, law, history, sociology, anthropology and literature who want to know the path travelled by Kenyans – women specifically – in constitution making will find it useful. Wanjiku Mukabi Kabira is Associate Professor of Literature and Director, African Women‘s Studies Centre, University of Nairobi, Kenya. She holds a PhD from University of Nairobi and an MA (Literature), from the University of Wisconsin, USA. She has published widely in the field of oral literature and in gender/women studies. She has been a leader in Women’s Movement for many years where she has consistently and passionately advocated for gender equality and equity in Kenya. She has mentored many women who have gone on to play critical roles in women’s empowerment and advancement. Her involvement with women issues inspired her to spearhead the establishment of the African Women’s Studies Centre in 2009. |
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