Colonial Inscriptions: Race, Sex, and Class in Kenya
by Carolyn Martin Shaw
University of Minnesota Press, 1995 Paper: 978-0-8166-2525-3 Library of Congress Classification HN793.A8S54 1995 Dewey Decimal Classification 306.096762
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1.
Introduction: Social Theory and Colonialism
Colonial Discourse/Colonial Culture
Social Theory and the Colonial Encounter
Culture and Colonialism in Kenya: The Book
Chapter 2.
The Production of Women: Kikuyu Gender and Politics at the Beginning of the Colonial Era
Piecework: Constructing the Past
The Kikuyu
The Political Economy of the Nineteenth-Century Kikuyu
Women's Contribution to the Political Economy
Food Presentation for Work Parties and for Hospitality
Women as Objects or Subjects in the Political Economy
The Lost Sister
Piecing It Together
Chapter 3.
Kikuyu Women and Sexuality
Women as Allegory: Leakey
Kenyatta on Women
Malinowskian Functionalism in Support of Clitoridectomy
Kikuyu Sexual Morality
The Conduct of Virginity
Clitoridectomy and Sexuality
Kikuyu Virginity within a Broader Context
Virginity and Clitoridectomy
The Achievement of Virginity
The African Contrast with Europe and Asia
Chapter 4.
Louis Leakey and the Kikuyu
The Excursion
Louis Seymour Bazette Leakey
Louis Leakey's Ethnography of the Kikuyu
Chapter5.
The Ethnographic Past: Jomo Kenyatta and Friends
The Ethnographic Past
Jomo Kenyatta: Author, Authentic Native
Facing Mount Kenya
Speaking for the African: The Professional Friend
The Future in the Past
Chapter 6.
Mau Mau Discourses
Mau Mau
Mau Mau: Fiction and Fact
Mau Mau News
Chapter 7.
Race, Class, Empire, and Sexuality
Colonial Landscapes
The Politics of Representation in Colonial Kenya
Living Off the Land
Racial Aesthetics in Colonial Kenya
African Discourses on Tribe and the Other
The Air up There: The Visible Minority of Socialite Settlers
Noble Savage, Spiteful Servant, Socialite Settler: Sex and Power in Kenyan Colonial Discourses, A Summary