Gender Mainstreaming Theory

public life and in decision-making processes, which entails ensuring that the recipients of gender mainstreaming policies must be involved in all aspects of conceptualizing the policies.

Kenya’s commitment to addressing gender inequalities and women’s’ Rights can be traced in both international and national policy commitments. The Government of Kenya ratified the (a) Vienna Declaration on Human Rights, (b) the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the Nairobi Forward Looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women (NFLS). Kenya ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) (1999).

The Kenya National Policy on Gender and Development (NPGD), spells out a policy approach of Gender mainstreaming

Feminism ideology can take many different forms. In the 1970's, women started developing a theory which helped to explain their oppression. Pockets of resistance began to organize and challenge patriarchy. By the 1980's, however, feminists started disagreeing on particular issues linked to feminism. What was once one theory began to branch out into many theories that focused on different feminist issues. Today, there are as many definitions of feminism as there are feminists. Each definition of feminism depends on a number of factors including one’s own beliefs, history and culture (Lorber,

According to Gamson (2000) queer theorists understand sexuality to be a highly fraught and unstable social, culture, and political structure which have produced countless textual, philosophical, political, social, and other cultural formations throughout human history. Queer theorists mainly examine the manners through which texts examine, contest, question, counter, and reject various forms of sexuality. In general, queer theorists do not assume any form or practice of sexuality to be normal, proper, or authentic. Instead, sexuality is considered to be entirely a social construction, though a changeable and rather unstable social construction at