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.
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Ngecha : a Kenyan village in a time of rapid social change. ISBN 0803248091. Published by University of Nebraska Press in 2004. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
