Women, culture, and creativity / editor, Florence Ebila and Florence K. Muhanguzi.

CONTENT

Part One : Family

1 African culture : Islam versus culture
Saad Fatihiya

2 Female husbands? or traversing gender? : the dynamics of ubusino (woman-to-woman marriage) among the Abakuria of Kenya, 1890-1990
Babere Kerata Chacha

3 Division of unpaid labour at home : the effect of policies?
Anneli Miettinen and Ismo Soderling


Part Two: Young Voices

4 Family--a network of relatives or just us? : negotiating "kinscripts" in urban middle class families in Kenya
Johanna Latvala

5 Worst forms of child labour in Uganda : an investigation into commercial sex exploitation of the girl child
Eddy Joshua Walakira

6 Connecting young people : the nature and meaning of social ties
P. O'Connor and A. Haynes

7 Major challenges to the girl child education in Kenya : The Kuria experience
E.S. Mohochi

Part Three: Culture

8 Cultural curse : a cross-cultural study in a tale of two women : a tribal and non-tribal upper caste women tell their stories [India]
Pratibha Ray

9 Speaking about the future : a conceptual choice / Laura Coatl, Laura Elena Avila-Zelaya

10 Who will change the negative portrayal of women in language, literature, the media, and society?
Stella Okoronkwo

11 Theologising development in South Africa : a gendered analysis of poverty, survival, and faith
Beverley Haddad

12 A hidden haven : the role of religious organizations in empowering women : the case of Mothers Union, Uganda
Apolo Nkwake

13 Female representation in Gikuyu popular music : a catalyst for domestic violence
Faith Maina

14 The syncretism of Native American, Latin American, and African American women's art : visual expressions of feminism, the environment, spirituality, and identity
Phoebe Farris

15 Gender and poverty : engendering political and spiritual power at Munsa and Kasunga, Western Uganda
Edward I. Steinhart

16 Gender identities in Kiswahili literary texts : a study of two Kenyan and two Tanzanian texts
Razia M. Mwondha

17 Women's struggle for existence : a study of women characters in Indonesian novels / Ied Veda Sitepu.

Includes Index: p. 350-353.