Changing concepts of the good child and good mothering

Ngecha: A Kenyan Village in a Time of Rapid Social Change

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 119-151

  Whiting, Beatrice ^b   Chesaina, Ciarunji ^a   Diru, Grace ^b   Ichoya, Jonah ^b   Kariuki, Priscilla ^b   Kimani, Violet Nyambura ^a   Kamau, Irene ^b   Maina, Rose ^b   Munge Kagia, Wanjiku ^b   Mwangi, Jane ^b   Whiting, John ^b   Landauer, Thomas ^b   Streeter, Lynn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^b University of Nairobi ^*

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