Items related to TANU Women: Gender and Culture in the Making of Tanganyikan...

TANU Women: Gender and Culture in the Making of Tanganyikan Nationalism, 1955-1965 (Social History of Africa) - Softcover

Geiger, Susan

  • 3.88 out of 5 stars
    17 ratings by Goodreads
 
9780435074210: TANU Women: Gender and Culture in the Making of Tanganyikan Nationalism, 1955-1965 (Social History of Africa)

Synopsis

Paper Edition. Geiger reveals the actions and "culture of politics" through which women participants in the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU)women constructed, performed, and maintained nationalism in Tanzania.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

SUSAN GEIGER received her Ph.D. in African history from the University of Dar es Salaam in 1973. She is Associate Professor in the Women's Studies Department, and on the graduate faculties in history and the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies at the University of Minnesota. She coedited "Women, Family, State and Economy in Africa" (SIGNS, special issue, 1991), and Interpreting Women's Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives (Indiana Univ. Press, 1989). She has published in the Journal of African History, the International Journal of African Historical Studies, the Journal of Women's History, and SIGNS.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.