Tabitha M Kanogo

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Her post–Nobel Peace Prize career was dominated by external engagements on diverse international forums.

The chapter argues that the few women who traversed normative and geographic boundaries to obtain degrees reflected change in how their communities viewed the economic, social, and cultural positions of women. Kanogo conveys the interconnectedness between Maathai's quest for environmental justice and her efforts to achieve gender equality in Kenya. To save this article to your Dropbox account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies.By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. These changes resulted in--and often resulted from--increased mobility for Kenyan women, who were enabled to cross physical, cultural, economic, social, and psychological frontiers that had been closed to them prior to colonial rule. The story of the squatter presence in the White Highlands is essentially the story of the conflicts and contradictions that existed between two agrarian systems, the settler plantation economy and the squatter peasant option.

The pertinent institutions and practices include the legal and cultural status of women, clitoridectomy, dowry, marriage, maternity and motherhood, and formal education. While Kanogo’s writing style and structure choice are simple and straightforward, the information is at times repetitive.As Kanogo demonstrates in discussing runaways and converts to Islam, women asserted agency in the space between customary and statutory law. The sexuality of mobile women unnerved administrators and elders, who reacted by attempting to codify the abduction of women, divorce, rape and polygamy within the law, as described in the second chapter. At the time of her death in 2011, the movement had mushroomed into a multipronged organization that continued to promote a holistic approach in focusing on environmental protection, the strengthening of rural communities, and the economic empowerment of those involved in the movement; today, GBM has chapters all over the world.