Title

Words Are A Place To Stand: Journals By Young Women In Kibera, Kenya

Keywords

Slums; Street girls; Women's autobiographies; Women's journals

Abstract

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 non-street women as well as the use of journals to create a private space in an otherwise completely public existence. © 2009 Sage Publications.

Publication Date

2-1-2009

Publication Title

Affilia - Journal of Women and Social Work

Volume

24

Issue

1

Number of Pages

19-30

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1177/0886109908326735

Socpus ID

58149166340 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/58149166340

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