essay
Women as agents of social change
Ngecha : a Kenyan village in a time of rapid social change • Lincoln • Published In 2004 • Pages: 93-117
By: Whiting, Beatrice Blyth.
Abstract
This document discusses the role women as agents of social change in a Kenyan village called Ngecha. It focuses on the ways Kikuyu women remained active forces for change by effectively mediating the local consequences of a wide variety of external forces including colonialism, missionaries, nationalist poloitical momevents and expanding global markets.
- Subjects
- Gender status
- External relations
- Division of labor by gender
- Dwellings
- Real property
- Gender roles and issues
- Education system
- Missions
- Labor supply and employment
- Tillage
- Family relationships
- Community structure
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- culture
- Gikuyu
- HRAF PubDate
- 2010
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2008
- Field Date
- 1968-1973
- Coverage Date
- 1900-1973
- Coverage Place
- Ngecha village, Central Province, Kenya
- Notes
- Beatrice Whiting
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 116-117)
- LCCN
- 2003021832
- LCSH
- Kikuyu (African people)/Rural development--Kenya--Ngecha/Women in rural development--Kenya/Rural women--Kenya--Ngecha/Family--Kenya/Kenya--Rural conditions--Case studies