Feminism in Tanzania

Individual Feminists:

Ophelia Mascarenhas

Marjorie Mbilinyi

Bibliography

Creighton, Colin and C.K. Omari. Gender, Family and Household in Tanzania. Avebury, 1995.

Geiger, Susan. Taru Women: Gender and Culture in the Making of Tanganyikan Nationalism, 1955-1965. Heinemann, 1997.

Mascarenhas, Ophelia and Marjorie Mbilinyi. Women in Tanzania: An Analytical Bibliography. 1983.

Mbiliny, Marjorie. Big Slavery. Dar es Salaam University Press, 1991. [You can order this book here.]

Mbilinyi, Dorothy A. and Cuthbert K. Omari, ed. Gender Relations and Women's Images in the Media. Dar es Salaam University Press, 1996. [You can order this book here.]

Mukangara, Fenella. Women and Gender Studies in Tanzania. An Annotated Bibliography (1982-94). Dar es Salaam University Press, 1995. [You can order this book here.]

Mukurasi, Laeticia. Post Abolished: One Woman's Struggle for Employment Rights in Tanzania. Ilr Press, 1991.

Ngaiza, Magdalene K. and Bertha Koda. The Unsung Heroines. Dar es Salaam University Press, 1991. [You can order this book here.]

Omari, Cuthbert K. Women in the Informal Sector. Dar es Salaam University Press, 1995. [You can order this book here.]

Rwebangira, Magdalena K. The Legal Status of Women and Poverty in Tanzania. Coronet Books, 1996.

Shields, Nwanganga. Women in the Urban Labor Market of Africa: The Case of Tanzania. World Bank, 1980..

Swantz, Marja-Liisa. Women in Development: A Creative Role Denied: The Case of Tanzania. St. Martins Press, 1985.

Tobisson, Eva. Family Dynamics Among the Kuria: Agro-Pastoralists in Northern Tanzania. Prometheus Books, 1986.

Wasser, Janice. "Who's Mommy's Helper? Grandma! Rethinking Menopause." WIN: Women's International Net, Issue 3A (Nov 1997).



Filmography

"From Sun Up." Dir. Flora M'mbubu, 1987. [You can read about this film here.]

"These Hands." 1992. [You can read about this film here.]