Title Women's agency and educational policy : the experiences of the women of Kilome, Kenya / Mutindi Mumbua Kiluva-Ndunda

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 194 pages) Series SUNY series, the social context of education SUNY series, social context of education. Contents 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 Summary "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 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."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-188) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Women -- Education -- Social aspects -- Kenya -- Kilome Education and state -- Kenya -- Kilome Women -- Kenya -- Kilome -- Social conditions SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory. Education and state Women -- Education -- Social aspects Women -- Social conditions Education, Special Topics. Education. Social Sciences. SUBJECT Kilome (Kenya) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00084953 Subject Kenya -- Kilome Form Electronic book LC no. 00020576 ISBN 0791447618 9780791447611 0791447626 9780791447628 079149165X 9780791491652

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