Gender, Family and Work in Tanzania

Colin Creighton, C.K. Omari

Contents: Introduction: Family and gender relations in Tanzania - inequality, control and resistance, Colin Creighton and C.K. Omari; Race, class and community in colonial Dar es Salaam: tentative steps towards an understanding of urban society, John Campbell; Monogamy, polygyny, or the single state? changes in marriage patterns in a Tanzanian coastal village, 1965-94, Pat Caplan; Kinship in the urban setting in Tanzania, Colin Creighton; Forest livelihoods: beekeeping as men’s work in Western Tanzania, Eleanor Fisher; Divided patriarchs in a labour migration economy: contextualizing debate about family and gender in colonial Njombe, James L. Giblin; ’My daughter... belongs to the government now’: marriage, Maasai and the Tanzanian state, Dorothy L. Hodgson; Gender inequality, poverty and food insecurity in Tanzania, S.M. Kapunda; Democratization of social relations at the household level: the participation of children and youth in Tanzania, Bertha Koda; Renovating the modern home: gender, marriage and weddings among professionals in Dar es Salaam, Anne S. Lewinson; Born to be less equal: the predicament of the girl child in Tanzania, C.K. Omari and D.A.S. Mbilinyi; Two models of co-operation: development institutions and market sellers in Tabora, Alison Tierney; Gender relations in a traditional irrigation scheme in Northern Tanzania, Els Upperman.