| Title |
Ngecha : a Kenyan village in a time of rapid social change / edited by Carolyn Pope Edwards and Beatrice Blyth Whiting. |
| OCLC |
56713543 |
| ISBN |
0803204183 (electronic bk.) |
| Publisher |
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2004] |
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©2004 |
| Description |
xiii, 280 pages : illustrations, map 24 cm |
| LC Subject heading/s |
Rural development -- Kenya -- Ngecha.
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Women in rural development -- Kenya.
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Rural women -- Kenya -- Ngecha.
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Families -- Kenya.
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Kenya -- Rural conditions -- Case studies.
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Other
Genre heading/s |
Electronic books.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Opening: "New dawn." Background and contexts / Carolyn Edwards and Beatrice Whiting -- The village and its families / Beatrice Whiting and Carolyn Edwards, with Ciarunji Chesaina, John Whiting, John Herzog, and Dorothy Herzog -- The historical stage / Beatrice Whiting, John Whiting, John Herzog, and Carolyn Edwards, with Arnold Curtis -- Interlude: "Let women be supported." Women as agents of social change / Beatrice Whiting -- Changing concepts of the good child and good mothering / Beatrice Whiting, with Ciarunji Chesaina, Grace Diru, Jonah Ichoya, Priscilla Kariuki, Violet Nyambura Kimani, Irene Kamau, Rose Maina, Wanjiku Munge-Kagia, Jane Mwangi, John Whiting, Thomas Landauer, and Lynn Streeter -- The teaching of values old and new / Ciarunji Chesaina -- Aging and elderhood / Frances Cox, with Ndung'u Mberia -- The university as gateway to a complex world / Carolyn Edwards, with E.G. Runo and Ezra Arap Maritim -- Ngecha today / Violet Nyambura kimani. |
| Reproduction note |
Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2004. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries. |
| Restrictions |
Single user license access. |
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