Review of African Political Economy - Vol. 25 No. 76 Tanu Women: Gender/Culture Tanganyikan 1955-65 (Geiger)

Abstract of Review

Title:	Tanu Women: Gender and Culture in the Making of Tanganyikan Nationalism: 1955-1965 by Susan Geiger
Reviewer:	Janet Bujra
Location:	Vol.25 No.76 (June 1998), pp297-298

If women are represented in Tanzania's multi-party Parliament today it is largely because they occupy seats specially reserved for them. Women face almost insurmountable difficulties in achieving direct election, with prejudice marshalled against them both from men and from other women. This outcome is paradoxical, given the pivotal role which women played in the nationalist movement and which is reviewed in Susan Geiger's book, TANU Women, based on interviews with over fifty women activists in TANU (the Tanganyika African National Union)..

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