Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Social Theory and Colonialism -- Colonial Discourse/Colonial Culture -- Social Theory and the Colonial Encounter -- Culture and Colonialism in Kenya: The Book -- Chapter 2. The Production of Women: Kikuyu Gender and Politics at the Beginning of the Colonial Era -- Piecework: Constructing the Past -- The Kikuyu -- The Political Economy of the Nineteenth-Century Kikuyu -- Women's Contribution to the Political Economy -- Food Presentation for Work Parties and for Hospitality -- Women as Objects or Subjects in the Political Economy -- The Lost Sister -- Piecing It Together -- Chapter 3. Kikuyu Women and Sexuality -- Women as Allegory: Leakey -- Kenyatta on Women -- Malinowskian Functionalism in Support of Clitoridectomy -- Kikuyu Sexual Morality -- The Conduct of Virginity -- Clitoridectomy and Sexuality -- Kikuyu Virginity within a Broader Context -- Virginity and Clitoridectomy -- The Achievement of Virginity -- The African Contrast with Europe and Asia -- Chapter 4. Louis Leakey and the Kikuyu -- The Excursion -- Louis Seymour Bazette Leakey -- Louis Leakey's Ethnography of the Kikuyu -- Chapter 5. The Ethnographic Past: Jomo Kenyatta and Friends -- The Ethnographic Past -- Jomo Kenyatta: Author, Authentic Native -- Facing Mount Kenya -- Speaking for the African: The Professional Friend -- The Future in the Past -- Chapter 6. Mau Mau Discourses -- Mau Mau -- Mau Mau: Fiction and Fact -- Mau Mau News -- Chapter 7. Race, Class, Empire, and Sexuality -- Colonial Landscapes -- The Politics of Representation in Colonial Kenya -- Living Off the Land -- Racial Aesthetics in Colonial Kenya -- African Discourses on Tribe and the Other -- The Air up There: The Visible Minority of Socialite Settlers.

Noble Savage, Spiteful Servant, Socialite Settler: Sex and Power in Kenyan Colonial Discourses, A Summary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.