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Finding Respectability

The Lived Experiences of Middle Class Divorced Women in Nairobi

Norah Wawira Kiereri

350 pages,

ISBN  978-1-80768-028-2 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (December 2026)

eISBN 978-1-80768-029-9 eBook Not Yet Published


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Norah Wawira Kiereri is a social anthropologist and SNF SPARK funding recipient, currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Geneva Graduate Institute. She was previously a postdoctoral researcher on the SNF-funded FamilEA project (2023–2025). Her current research examines the everyday practices of relations of middle-class Nairobi women with their relatives-in-law. She has published in Les Cahiers d’Afrique de l’Est and contributed to an edited volume on migration and on morality.

Subject: Anthropology (General)Gender Studies and Sexuality
Area: Africa


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