Women, Sexuality, and the Changing Social Order: The Impact of Government Policies on Reproductive Behavior in KenyaFirst Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Study Area and Methods of the Study | 12 |
The Conceptual Framework of the Study | 32 |
PreColonial Kikuyu Social Organization | 59 |
The Situation during the Colonial Period | 72 |
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The PostColonial Womens Collective | 94 |
The Interaction Patterns of Womens Groups | 103 |
Involvement of womens groups in sex and reproductive health | 147 |
The case studies of groups | 152 |
Case studies of contraceptive users | 169 |
Summary and Conclusions Womens Groups in Transition | 173 |
Womens collective participation in three historical periods | 174 |
Womens groups health sex and reproduction | 179 |
The nature of womens struggle | 181 |
The potential of dominated groups | 187 |
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The Internal Structure and Characteristics of Contemporary Womens Groups | 119 |
Distribution of womens groups in the study area | 120 |
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Group size | 123 |
The naming system | 124 |
Composition of groups in marital status | 125 |
Some factors explaining the changing features of womens groups | 129 |
The Activities of Womens Groups | 134 |
The incomegenerating activities | 139 |
additional features | 142 |
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