Wairimu Ngaruiya Njambi
Biographic Data
| ID | 343445 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wairimu Ngaruiya Njambi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wairimu Ngaruiya |
| FAMILY NAME | Njambi |
| SIGNATURE | NJAMBI W N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida Atlantic University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Teaching about White Supremacy and Privilege after the Capitol Insurrection
In spring 2021, we taught a course called Honors White Supremacy and Privilege to university honors students at our higher education institution in Florida. Aimed at helping students process intellectually the Black Lives Matter events of the preceding year, the course took place just as a reaction was gathering momentum against anti-racist teaching. We present the materials used in the 1-credit course and contextualize the experience in ongoing …
Hollywood imagines urban Africa, and it's as bad as you think
Since 1918, the Hollywood film industry has represented Africa on film, portraying the continent and its peoples through long-standing stereotypes. This paper specifically focuses on film representations of urban Africa over time. We analysed 50 films produced in a 100-year time span and present a three-category typology of portrayals of African cityspaces. The categories include “the absent city,” in which urban spaces are fully ignored in favou…
Hollywood’s Africa: Lessons in race, gender, and stereotype
This essay relates our experience in a course that we have co-taught periodically called Honors Africans in Film. It is an upper-level, undergraduate course that engages honors students in watching
Marginal Voices in “Wild” America: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and “Nature” in The National Parks
One Vagina to Go: Eve Ensler's Universal Vagina and Its Implications for African Women
Irua Ria Atumia and Anti-Colonial Struggles Among the Gĩkũyũ of Kenya: A Counter Narrative on 'Female Genital Mutulation' 1
My focus in this paper is on cultural and political mobilization centered on irua ria atumia in the anti-colonial struggles of Kenya's Gĩkũyũ ethnic group. While a currently hegemonic eradication discourse presents female genital practices as proof of these women's oppression and domination, the history presented here conversely demonstrates that irua should be presented as a means of empowerment and resistance. Irua ria atumia instilled a cultur…
African Feminist Scholars in Women's Studies: Negotiating Spaces of Dislocation and Transformation in the Study of Women
Josephine Beoku-Betts, Wairimũ Ngarũiya Njambi, African Feminist Scholars in Women's Studies: "Negotiating Spaces of Dislocation and Transformation in the Study of Women, Meridians, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2005), pp. 113-132
Rethinking Masculinized Tools: Machetes, Women's Work, and Suburban Yard Maintenance
This paper examines masculinization and colonial ideologies that immediately come to surface at the intersection of "machete" (with its connotative associations) and the suburbs in the United States. By using the lens of feminist theory, we explore the contradictions in suburban home maintenance discourse (gardening discourse in particular) and present texts and images of women using and talking about the tools identified as masculine in Western …
Dualisms and female bodies in representations of African female circumcision: A feminist critique
The contentious topic of female circumcision brings together medical science, women's health activism, media, and national and international policy-making in pursuit of the common goal of eradicating such practices. Referring to these diverse and heterogeneous practices as 'female genital mutilation' (FGM), eradicators have then condemned them as 'barbaric' and medically harmful to female bodies and sexuality. In presuming that bodies can be sepa…
A discourse in transition: Extending feminist dialogues on female circumcision
Women's and Gender Studies in English-Speaking Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Research in the Social Sciences
This article seeks to broaden understanding of issues and controversies addressed in social science research on women's and gender studies by researchers and activists based in English-speaking sub-Saharan Africa. The topics covered were selected from those ratified by African women in the Africa Platform for Action in 1995 as well as from current debates on the politics of identity. The common feminist issues the authors identified were health; …
Revisiting ?Woman-Woman Marriage: Notes on G?k?y? Women
Dualisms and female bodies in representations of African female circumcision: A feminist critique
The contentious topic of female circumcision brings together medical science, women's health activism, media, and national and international policy-making in pursuit of the common goal of eradicating such practices. Referring to these diverse and heterogeneous practices as 'female genital mutilation' (FGM), eradicators have then condemned them as 'barbaric' and medically harmful to female bodies and sexuality. In presuming that bodies can be sepa…
Women's and Gender Studies in English-Speaking Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Research in the Social Sciences
This article seeks to broaden understanding of issues and controversies addressed in social science research on women's and gender studies by researchers and activists based in English-speaking sub-Saharan Africa. The topics covered were selected from those ratified by African women in the Africa Platform for Action in 1995 as well as from current debates on the politics of identity. The common feminist issues the authors identified were health; …
One Vagina to Go: Eve Ensler's Universal Vagina and Its Implications for African Women
Irua Ria Atumia and Anti-Colonial Struggles Among the Gĩkũyũ of Kenya: A Counter Narrative on 'Female Genital Mutulation' 1
My focus in this paper is on cultural and political mobilization centered on irua ria atumia in the anti-colonial struggles of Kenya's Gĩkũyũ ethnic group. While a currently hegemonic eradication discourse presents female genital practices as proof of these women's oppression and domination, the history presented here conversely demonstrates that irua should be presented as a means of empowerment and resistance. Irua ria atumia instilled a cultur…
African Feminist Scholars in Women's Studies: Negotiating Spaces of Dislocation and Transformation in the Study of Women
Josephine Beoku-Betts, Wairimũ Ngarũiya Njambi, African Feminist Scholars in Women's Studies: "Negotiating Spaces of Dislocation and Transformation in the Study of Women, Meridians, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2005), pp. 113-132
Marginal Voices in “Wild” America: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and “Nature” in The National Parks
A discourse in transition: Extending feminist dialogues on female circumcision
Hollywood’s Africa: Lessons in race, gender, and stereotype
This essay relates our experience in a course that we have co-taught periodically called Honors Africans in Film. It is an upper-level, undergraduate course that engages honors students in watching
Revisiting ?Woman-Woman Marriage: Notes on G?k?y? Women
Rethinking Masculinized Tools: Machetes, Women's Work, and Suburban Yard Maintenance
This paper examines masculinization and colonial ideologies that immediately come to surface at the intersection of "machete" (with its connotative associations) and the suburbs in the United States. By using the lens of feminist theory, we explore the contradictions in suburban home maintenance discourse (gardening discourse in particular) and present texts and images of women using and talking about the tools identified as masculine in Western …
Dualisms and female bodies in representations of African female circumcision: A feminist critique
The contentious topic of female circumcision brings together medical science, women's health activism, media, and national and international policy-making in pursuit of the common goal of eradicating such practices. Referring to these diverse and heterogeneous practices as 'female genital mutilation' (FGM), eradicators have then condemned them as 'barbaric' and medically harmful to female bodies and sexuality. In presuming that bodies can be sepa…
A discourse in transition: Extending feminist dialogues on female circumcision
Women's and Gender Studies in English-Speaking Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Research in the Social Sciences
This article seeks to broaden understanding of issues and controversies addressed in social science research on women's and gender studies by researchers and activists based in English-speaking sub-Saharan Africa. The topics covered were selected from those ratified by African women in the Africa Platform for Action in 1995 as well as from current debates on the politics of identity. The common feminist issues the authors identified were health; …
African Feminist Scholars in Women's Studies: Negotiating Spaces of Dislocation and Transformation in the Study of Women
Josephine Beoku-Betts, Wairimũ Ngarũiya Njambi, African Feminist Scholars in Women's Studies: "Negotiating Spaces of Dislocation and Transformation in the Study of Women, Meridians, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2005), pp. 113-132
Irua Ria Atumia and Anti-Colonial Struggles Among the Gĩkũyũ of Kenya: A Counter Narrative on 'Female Genital Mutulation' 1
My focus in this paper is on cultural and political mobilization centered on irua ria atumia in the anti-colonial struggles of Kenya's Gĩkũyũ ethnic group. While a currently hegemonic eradication discourse presents female genital practices as proof of these women's oppression and domination, the history presented here conversely demonstrates that irua should be presented as a means of empowerment and resistance. Irua ria atumia instilled a cultur…
One Vagina to Go: Eve Ensler's Universal Vagina and Its Implications for African Women
Marginal Voices in “Wild” America: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and “Nature” in The National Parks
Hollywood’s Africa: Lessons in race, gender, and stereotype
This essay relates our experience in a course that we have co-taught periodically called Honors Africans in Film. It is an upper-level, undergraduate course that engages honors students in watching
Hollywood imagines urban Africa, and it's as bad as you think
Since 1918, the Hollywood film industry has represented Africa on film, portraying the continent and its peoples through long-standing stereotypes. This paper specifically focuses on film representations of urban Africa over time. We analysed 50 films produced in a 100-year time span and present a three-category typology of portrayals of African cityspaces. The categories include “the absent city,” in which urban spaces are fully ignored in favou…
Teaching about White Supremacy and Privilege after the Capitol Insurrection
In spring 2021, we taught a course called Honors White Supremacy and Privilege to university honors students at our higher education institution in Florida. Aimed at helping students process intellectually the Black Lives Matter events of the preceding year, the course took place just as a reaction was gathering momentum against anti-racist teaching. We present the materials used in the 1-credit course and contextualize the experience in ongoing …
Sociology (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Political science (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues (3 works)