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
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
58149166340 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/58149166340
STARS Citation
Swart, Elizabeth, "Words Are A Place To Stand: Journals By Young Women In Kibera, Kenya" (2009). Scopus Export 2000s. 12257.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2000/12257