Continuity and Change: Performing Gender in Rural Tanzania

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cg.contributor.affiliationInstitute of Rural Development Planning, Tanzaniaen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Maize and Wheat Improvement Centeren_US
cg.contributor.affiliationRoskilde Universityen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Münsteren_US
cg.contributor.crpMaizeen_US
cg.contributor.crpWheaten_US
cg.contributor.donorBill & Melinda Gates Foundationen_US
cg.coverage.countryTanzaniaen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2TZen_US
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Africaen_US
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africaen_US
cg.creator.identifierFarnworth, C.R.: 0000-0002-2263-865Xen_US
cg.creator.identifierLone Badstue: 0000-0001-8848-7498en_US
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2020.1790534en_US
cg.isijournalISI Journalen_US
cg.issn0022-0388en_US
cg.issn1743-9140en_US
cg.issue2en_US
cg.journalJournal of Development Studiesen_US
cg.volume57en_US
dc.contributor.authorBadstue, Lone B.en_US
dc.contributor.authorFarnworth, Cathy Rozelen_US
dc.contributor.authorUmantseva, Anyaen_US
dc.contributor.authorKamanzi, Adelbertusen_US
dc.contributor.authorRoeven, Laraen_US
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-31T15:56:07Zen_US
dc.date.available2022-08-31T15:56:07Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/121039en_US
dc.titleContinuity and Change: Performing Gender in Rural Tanzaniaen_US
dcterms.abstractTanzanian legislation for women’s rights is a product of decades of indigenous women’s struggles and considered amongst the most progressive in Africa. However, implementation has been problematic and some elements in the current discourse appear to push back against gender equality with an essentialist framing of women and men as naturally different. This paper draws on the perspectives of 144 women and 144 men, in four rural communities in different regions of Tanzania, to build an understanding of how they perceive gender equality, and how their perceptions relate to decision-making, women earning incomes, women as homemakers, and control over assets. Understanding gender as a performance we contextualise our analysis through a historical overview of women’s struggles to secure rights from colonial times to the present day. We find that while local discourse appears to embrace the idea of gender equality, practice remains quite different with the threat of sanctions restricting the scope for re-negotiation of gender. The paper demonstrates how the continuous performance, reproduction and renegotiation of gender takes place as part of everyday life, as women and men seek to secure their personal well-being in a context of limited cultural and economic options.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceScientistsen_US
dcterms.available2020-07-16en_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationLone Badstue, Cathy Rozel Farnworth, Anya Umantseva, Adelbertus Kamanzi, and Lara Roeven. 2021. Continuity and Change: Performing Gender in Rural Tanzania. Journal of Development Studies, 57:2, 310-325en_US
dcterms.extentpp. 310-325en_US
dcterms.issued2021-02-01en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0en_US
dcterms.publisherInforma UK Limiteden_US
dcterms.subjectgenderen_US
dcterms.subjectwomenen_US
dcterms.subjectagricultureen_US
dcterms.typeJournal Articleen_US

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