Worries of the heart :
By: Mutongi, Kenda.
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TextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007Description: xiii, 256 p. : ill., maps.ISBN: 9780226554198 (cloth : alk. paper); 0226554198 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780226554204 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0226554201 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Widows | Women | FamiliesDDC classification: 306.8830 Online resources: Click here to access online | Click here to access online | Click here to access online | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Everyday life -- Western Kenya, 1880-1902 -- Feeble little lads looking for food -- "What harm can an old dry bone do?" -- Lessons in practical Christianity -- Living "in line" -- The impact of gold mining -- Land conflicts in the 1930s -- Family life -- Educating "progressive" sons -- The burden of "progressive" sons -- Cash, cows, and bridewealth -- Domestic education at the girls boarding school -- Moral panic -- Wife beating -- Postcolonial promises -- Citizenship and land rights in postcolonial Kenya -- Rural widows, city widows, and the fight for inheritance.
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