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Kenda Mutongi

Worries of the Heart

Widows, Family, and Community in Kenya

272 pages, 18 halftones, 2 maps  6 x 9  © 2007

Cloth $50.00

ISBN: 9780226554198   Published September 2007

Paper $20.00

ISBN: 9780226554204   Published September 2007

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Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Maps of Kenya
Introduction

Part I: Everyday Life
1. Western Kenya, 1880–1902
2. Feeble Little Lads Looking for Food
3. “What Harm Can an Old Dry Bone Do?”
4. Lessons in Practical Christianity
5. Living “in Line”
6. The Impact of Gold Mining
7. Land Conflicts in the 1930s

Part II: Family Life
8. Educating “Progressive” Sons
9. The Burden of “Progressive” Sons
10. Cash, Cows, and Bridewealth
11. Domestic Education at the Girls Boarding School
12. Moral Panic
13. Wife Beating

Part III: Postcolonial Promises
14. Citizenship and Land Rights in Postcolonial Kenya
15. Rural Widows, City Widows, and the Fight for Inheritance

Conclusion
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Subjects


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