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Kawarazuka, Nozomi, Locke, Catherine 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1810-1902 and Seeley, Janet
(2019)
Women bargaining with patriarchy in coastal Kenya:contradictions, creative agency and food provisioning.
Gender, Place and Culture, 26 (3).
pp. 384-404.
ISSN 0966-369X
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Abstract
Gender analysts have long recognised that challenging existing patriarchal structures involves risks for women, who may lose both long-term support and protection from kin. However, understanding the specific ways in which they ‘bargain with patriarchy’ in particular contexts is relatively poorly understood. We focus on a Mijikenda fishing community in coastal Kenya to explore contradictions in gendered power relations and how women deploy these to reinterpret gendered practices without directly challenging local patriarchal structures. We argue that a more complex understanding of women’s creative agency can reveal both the value to women of culturally-specific gendered roles and responsibilities and the importance of subtle changes that they are able to negotiate in these. With reference to food provisioning, the analysis contributes to more nuanced understandings of gendered household food security and women’s creative approaches to maintaining long-term security in their lives.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | agency,gender relations,kenya,patriarchy,small-scale fisheries,gender studies,demography,cultural studies,arts and humanities (miscellaneous),sdg 2 - zero hunger ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3318 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development) |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Jun 2019 10:30 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2022 04:56 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/71573 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/0966369X.2018.1552559 |
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