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Title Ngecha : a Kenyan village in a time of rapid social change / edited by Carolyn Pope Edwards and Beatrice Blyth Whiting
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 280 pages) : illustrations, map
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Rural development -- Kenya -- Ngecha
Women in rural development -- Kenya
Rural women -- Kenya -- Ngecha
Families -- Kenya
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
Families
Rural conditions
Rural development
Rural women
Women in rural development
Ländliche Siedlung
Entwicklung
Ländlicher Raum
Sozialer Wandel
Frau
SUBJECT Kenya -- Rural conditions -- Case studies
Subject Kenya
Kenya -- Ngecha
Kenia
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Edwards, Carolyn P.
Whiting, Beatrice Blyth.
ISBN 0803204183
9780803204188