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When the light is fire : Maasai schoolgirls in contemporary Kenya
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ISBN: 9780252083723 9780252050770 9780252042034 0252050770 0252042034 0252083725 Year: 2018 Publisher: Urbana, Ill. University of Illinois Press

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Abstract

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.

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