Militants, mothers, and the national family: 'ujamaa', gender, and rural development in postcolonial Tanzania

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Title:	Militants, mothers, and the national family: 'ujamaa', gender, and rural development in postcolonial Tanzania
Author:	Lal, Priya
Year:	2010
Periodical:	The Journal of African History (ISSN 0021-8537)
Volume:	51
Issue:	1
Pages:	1-20
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Tanzania
Subjects:	ujamaa family gender roles villagization
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/40984999
Abstract:	Between 1964 and 1975, development politics in Tanzania came to be organized around a version of 'ujamaa' that normalized distinct gender roles and celebrated a generic ideal of the nuclear family. Yet as 'ujamaa' villagization unfolded on the ground in the south-eastern region of Mtwara, rural people's practices rarely conformed to the ideas about gender and family implicit in official discourse and policy. Just as the institution of the family on the ground proved to be a complicated and fractured one, the Tanzanian State's understanding of familyhood and the larger project of 'ujamaa' were deeply riddled with internal tensions. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]