Within a broad analysis of colonial oppurtunities for physical, social and educational mobility, Kanogo shows how African and British male authorities tried, with uncertain opinions and from different perspectives, to control female initiatives, and how, to very varying degrees, women managed to achieve increasing measures of control over their own lives.
North America: Ohio U Press; Kenya: EAEP
Reviews
A most important and readable book, which is meticulously documented and explores the complexity of women's experiences in colonial Kenya. ...A superb study. THE HISTORIANThis book is a massiveundertaking and will be of interest to scholars in the fields of women, gender and colonialism, Kenyan history, East African history, and colonialism in Africa. CAHIERS D'ETUDES AFRICAINES
Shouldappear on the reading lists of scholars of Kenya and of women in Africa. THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES
