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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kiluva-Ndunda, Mutindi Mumbua, author.

Series:

SUNY series, social context of education.

SUNY series, the social context of education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education and state--Kenya--Kilome.

Education and state.

Women--Kenya--Kilome--Social conditions.

Women.

Women--Education--Social aspects--Kenya--Kilome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 194 p. )

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2001]

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-188) and index.

ISBN:

9780791491652

079149165X