ANU Thesis Title: “They would rather have the women who are humbled”: Gendered citizenship and embodied rights in post-colonial Kenya

Author: Christina Mary Kenny

Date: 2017

Abstract

‘For all the effort and attention Kenyan women receive from the international rights community and at times, from their own government, human rights frameworks are not significantly improving the lives of Kenyan women. Attempting to address this, a great deal of work has been done on monitoring and evaluating human rights based interventions, including tightening funding structures, making recipient organisations more accountable to donors, and assessing the progress of governments and non-government organisations in promoting human rights based reform. Rather than assess individual projects or goals of aid, my approach questions the assumptions which
underpin these interventions.’

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