UID:
almahu_9949596634602882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9780252050770 (ebook) :
Series Statement:
Illinois scholarship online
Content:
A host of international organizations promotes the belief that education will empower Kenya's Maasai girls. Yet the ideas that animate their campaigns often arise from presumptions that reduce the girls themselves to helpless victims of gender-related forms of oppression. Heather D. Switzer's interviews with over 100 Kenyan Maasai schoolgirls challenge the widespread view of education as a silver bullet solution to global poverty. In their own voices, the girls offer incisive insights into their commitments, aspirations, and desires. Switzer weaves this ethnographic material into an astute analysis of historical literature, education and development documents, and theoretical literature.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2018.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780252042034
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
URL:
Illinois scholarship online
