Africa's children. Kenyan women in transition
Description
This program explores the pressures on female adolescents in the Third World through the stories of four young Kenyan women growing up in a time of cultural upheaval: Christine, a Masai who escaped an arranged marriage so she could study law; Dekha, brought up in a rigidly patriarchal Muslim town, who aspires to be a doctor; Anastasia, who works on her family's farm while yearning to become a Catholic nun; and Mboone, who dreams of exchanging her affluent urban lifestyle for a career of service in the UN, to help improve the lives of women all over the world. Female circumcision, polygyny, AIDS, reproductive choice, equal access to education, and other issues are discussed with candor.
Runtime
58 min
Subjects
- Social structure (572)
- Women (809)
- Social change (532)
- Marriage (181)
- Mothers (71)
- Kinship (74)
- Sex role (109)
- Tribes (122)
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
[2005], c2000
Database
Films on Demand
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