Author: Susan Geiger
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN: 9780435072544
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
In this book, Susan Geiger establishes gender as a category of analysis that not only situates women in African political life, but also compels readers to reformulate concepts such as "nationalism" and the "state". By highlighting the key role women played in the nationalist struggle in Tanganyika, Geiger dispels "metanarratives" of African nationalism that privilege Western-educated African male elites and generally conceive African nationalism as an imported ideology.