When the light is fire : Maasai schoolgirls in contemporary Kenya /

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Author / Creator:	Switzer, Heather D., 1970- author.
Imprint:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Girls, Maasai -- Education -- Kenya -- Kajiado District. Maasai (African people) -- Education -- Kenya -- Kajiado District. Women, Maasai -- Kenya -- Kajiado District -- Social conditions. Educational anthropology -- Kenya -- Kajiado District. Educational anthropology. Maasai (African people) -- Education. Social conditions. Women, Maasai -- Social conditions. Kajiado District (Kenya) -- Social conditions -- 21st century. Kenya -- Kajiado District. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12283186

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ISBN:	9780252042034 9780252083723 9780252050770 0252050770 0252042034 0252083725
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: When the light is fire Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018] 9780252042034 (cloth : alk. paper)

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