Catherine Wawasi Kitetu

List of John Benjamins publications in which Catherine Wawasi Kitetu is involved.

Article

Kitetu, Catherine Wawasi and Angelina Nduku Kioko 2013 Chapter 1. Issues of language and gender in iweto marriage as practised by the Kamba in Kenya Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tradition, struggle and change, Atanga, Lilian Lem, Sibonile Edith Ellece, Lia Litosseliti and Jane Sunderland (eds.), pp. 29–52 | Article

This chapter examines how, in the discourse of iweto marriage (where a childless hetero-sexual woman among the Kamba of Kenya marries another childbearing one), gendered subject positions are constructed, and how issues of power are played out. The study explores the roles and identities created… read more