Edna G Ndichu
Biographic Data
| ID | 189405 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edna G Ndichu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edna G |
| FAMILY NAME | Ndichu |
| SIGNATURE | NDICHU E G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Whitworth University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Going natural: Black women's identity project shifts in hair care practices
Hair care, a seemingly mundane consumption practice, is packed with sociocultural meanings and constitutes an important realm of identity work for consumers. Drawing upon existing literature on consumer identity projects, this paper investigates the experiences of urban, Black women in Kenya as they disengage from the normative practice of altering their natural hair texture using chemical straighteners (a practice that conforms to Eurocentric be…
Going natural: Black women's identity project shifts in hair care practices
Hair care, a seemingly mundane consumption practice, is packed with sociocultural meanings and constitutes an important realm of identity work for consumers. Drawing upon existing literature on consumer identity projects, this paper investigates the experiences of urban, Black women in Kenya as they disengage from the normative practice of altering their natural hair texture using chemical straighteners (a practice that conforms to Eurocentric be…
Going natural: Black women's identity project shifts in hair care practices
Hair care, a seemingly mundane consumption practice, is packed with sociocultural meanings and constitutes an important realm of identity work for consumers. Drawing upon existing literature on consumer identity projects, this paper investigates the experiences of urban, Black women in Kenya as they disengage from the normative practice of altering their natural hair texture using chemical straighteners (a practice that conforms to Eurocentric be…
Aesthetics (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Beauty (1 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (1 works) · Embodied cognition (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (1 works) · Gender Studies (1 works) · Gender Studies (1 works)