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BL
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| Record Number
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585569
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b414788
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| Main Entry
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Kiluva-Ndunda, Mutindi Mumbua.
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| Title & Author
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Women's agency and educational policy : : the experiences of the women of Kilome, Kenya /\ Mutindi Mumbua Kiluva-Ndunda.
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| Publication Statement
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Albany :: State University of New York Press,, c2001.
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| Series Statement
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SUNY series, the social context of education
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| Page. NO
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xii, 194 p. ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0791447618 (alk. paper)
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: 9780791447611 (alk. paper)
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: 0791447626 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780791447628 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-188) and index.
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| Contents
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Education and women's equity: framing the context -- Research sites -- Grounding the methodology of study -- Analyses of education- and development-policy documents -- Kilome women's educational experiences -- Factors limiting girls' educational opportunities -- Intensification of women's labor to educate their children and its implications -- "Help me so that I may help you": women's self-help movement -- Women's educational experiences: private and public discourses on education in Kenya and implications for policy.
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| Abstract
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"This book examines rural African women's experiences of education in Kilome, Kenya, providing engrossing, and oftentimes heartbreaking, testimony on the cultural, historical, social, economic, and political factors that have shaped, and continue to shape, women's educational and economic opportunities there. As a Kamba woman who grew up in rural Kenya and as one who received an education in the metropolitan cities of North America, the author presents these women's stories not simply from an insider's perspective, but as one who has shared experiences of the issues discussed in the book.
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Highlighting the struggles these women face to provide their children - particularly their daughterswith educational opportunities, the author draws attention to the gender and power issues that limit women's participation in the public sphere and illustrates how women in Kenya have been largely absent at the national level where educational policies are formulated."--BOOK JACKET.
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| Subject
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Women-- Education-- Social aspects-- Kenya-- Kilome.
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Education and state-- Kenya-- Kilome.
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Women-- Kenya-- Kilome-- Social conditions.
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| Subject
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Kilome (Kenya)
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| LC Classification
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LC2474.2.K54 2001
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