Ngecha: a Kenyan village in a time of rapid social change

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.