When the light is fire: Maasai schoolgirls in contemporary Kenya
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 219 pages |
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Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. “Girls are the most powerful force of change on the planet
Situating Schoolgirlhood 1
Chapter 1. “Now is not like before. The world has changed”: Maasai
Education in Cultural and Historical Context 29
Chapter 2. “I see that when I am in school, I will have a good life”:
Producing and Performing Schoolgirlhood 58
Chapter 3. “The medicine for fire is fire”: Negotiating
Schoolgirlhood 88
Chapter 4. “We are not enkanyakuai. . . . We are just girls”:
Embodying Schoolgirlhood 114
Conclusion. Becoming “People Who Use Both Hands” 145
Notes 169
Works Cited 195
Index 217
“One of the only books that I know which draws on and shares the perspectives and
experiences of schoolgirls themselves, thus challenging dominant ideas that they are
especially passive, vulnerable, or incapable of articulating their complicated and chang-
ing lives. As such, the book directly challenges broad, abstract claims by development
donors and other champions of ‘the girl effect/”
—DOROTHY L HODGSON, author of Being Maasai, Becoming Indigenous:
Postcolonial Politics in a Neoliberal World
“When the Light is Fire is a book that forces you to confront the many contradictions, par-
adoxes, and nuances of ‘schoolgirl.5 What Valerie Walkerdine set out to explore several
decades ago in Schoolgirl Fictions is now taken up by Heather Switzer in relation to
contemporary Maasai culture. As central to its obvious contributions to deepening an
understanding of girls’ education, Switzer’s rich analysis offers a fascinating critique of
global policy and neoliberalism. The book is compelling reading for scholars in variety
of areas including girlhood studies, feminist research, and development studies.”
—CLAUDIA MITCHELL, coeditor of Girlhood and the Politics of Place
A host of international organizations promotes the belief that education will empower
Kenya’s Maasai girls. Yet the ideas that animate their campaigns often arise from
presumptions that reduce the girls themselves to helpless victims of gender-related
forms of oppression.
Heather D. Switzer’s interviews with over one hundred Kenyan Maasai schoolgirls
challenge the widespread view of education as a silver bullet solution to global poverty.
In their own voices, the girls offer incisive insights into their commitments, aspirations,
and desires. Switzer weaves this ethnographic material into an astute analysis of his-
torical literature, education and development documents, and theoretical literature.
Maasai schoolgirls express a particular knowledge about themselves and provocative
hopes for their futures. Yet, as Switzer shows, new opportunities force them to face, and
navigate, new vulnerabilities and insecurities within a society that is itself in flux.
HEATHER D. SWITZER is an assistant professor of women and
gender studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University.
Cover images: Maasai primary school students in
Kajiado County, Kenya play soccer and rest under the
shade during their physical education period (photo by
the author); geometric pattern (©iStock.com/chuvipro)
Cover design by Jennifer S. Fisher
UNIVERSITY OF
ILLINOIS PRESS
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