Table of Contents:
  • Opening: "New dawn." Background and contexts / Carolyn Edwards and Beatrice Whiting
  • The village and its families / Beatrice Whiting and Carolyn Edwards, with Ciarunji Chesaina, John Whiting, John Herzog, and Dorothy Herzog
  • The historical stage / Beatrice Whiting, John Whiting, John Herzog, and Carolyn Edwards, with Arnold Curtis
  • Interlude: "Let women be supported." Women as agents of social change / Beatrice Whiting
  • Changing concepts of the good child and good mothering / Beatrice Whiting, with Ciarunji Chesaina, Grace Diru, Jonah Ichoya, Priscilla Kariuki, Violet Nyambura Kimani, Irene Kamau, Rose Maina, Wanjiku Munge-Kagia, Jane Mwangi, John Whiting, Thomas Landauer, and Lynn Streeter
  • The teaching of values old and new / Ciarunji Chesaina
  • Aging and elderhood / Frances Cox, with Ndung'u Mberia
  • The university as gateway to a complex world / Carolyn Edwards, with E.G. Runo and Ezra Arap Maritim
  • Ngecha today / Violet Nyambura kimani.