Mutongi, Kenda. <br/><br/>
Worries of the heart  widows, family, and community in Kenya /  [electronic resource] : 
Kenda Mutongi. 
 - Chicago :  University of Chicago Press,  c2007. 
 - xiii, 256 p. :  ill., maps. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Everyday life -- Western Kenya, 1880-1902 -- Feeble little lads looking for food -- "What harm can an old dry bone do?" -- Lessons in practical Christianity -- Living "in line" -- The impact of gold mining -- Land conflicts in the 1930s -- Family life -- Educating "progressive" sons -- The burden of "progressive" sons -- Cash, cows, and bridewealth -- Domestic education at the girls boarding school -- Moral panic -- Wife beating -- Postcolonial promises -- Citizenship and land rights in postcolonial Kenya -- Rural widows, city widows, and the fight for inheritance. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Widows--Social conditions.--Kenya--Maragoli<br/>Women--Social conditions.--Kenya--Maragoli<br/>Families--Kenya--Maragoli.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Kenya--Colonial influence.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ1058.5.K4  / M88 2007 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.88/30967628