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Women bargaining with patriarchy in coastal Kenya: Contradictions, creative agency and food provisioning.

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Title Women bargaining with patriarchy in coastal Kenya: Contradictions, creative agency and food provisioning.
 
Creator Kawarazuka, Nozomi
Locke, C.
Seeley, J.
 
Subject gender
small-scale fisheries
women
food security
 
Description 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.
 
Date 2019-03
2019-07-08T21:14:06Z
2019-07-08T21:14:06Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Kawarazuka, N.; Locke, C.; Seeley, J. 2019. Women bargaining with patriarchy in coastal Kenya: Contradictions, creative agency and food provisioning. Gender, Place & Culture. ISSN: 0966-369X. 26:3. pp. 384-404.
0966-369X
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/102102
https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2018.1552559
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 384-404.
 
Source Gender, Place and Culture