Words Are a Place to Stand: Journals by Young Women in Kibera, Kenya  

Oleh:

Swart, Elizabeth

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Affilia vol. 24 no. 1 (Feb. 2009), page 19-30.
Topik: slums; street girls; women’s autobiographies; women’s journals
Fulltext: 19.pdf (92.66KB)

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The study analyzes 5 months of daily journal entries by young women residing in Kibera, the largest slum in sub-Saharan Africa. The findings are similar to previous findings about young women in impoverished urban environments, revealing few female support networks among this population. However, results show many supportive, one-to-one relationships between among women, indicating that poverty and socialization may impede larger networks that could otherwise occur. They also reveal flexible relationships between so-called street and nonstreet women as well as the use of journals to create a private space in an otherwise completely public existence.

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