Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Family and gender relations in Tanzania - inequality, control and resistance -- 1. Race, class and community in colonial Dar es Salaam: Tentative steps towards an understanding of urban society -- 2. Monogamy, polygyny, or the single state? Changes in marriage patterns in a Tanzanian coastal village, 1965-94 -- 3. Kinship in the urban setting in Tanzania -- 4. Forest livelihoods: Beekeeping as men's work in Western Tanzania -- 5. Divided patriarchs in a labour migration economy: Contextualizing debate about family and gender in colonial Njombe -- 6. 'My daughter ... belongs to the government now': Marriage, Maasai and the Tanzanian state -- 7. Gender inequality, poverty and food insecurity in Tanzania -- 8. Democratisation of social relations at the household level: The participation of children and youth in Tanzania -- 9. Renovating the modern home: Gender, marriage and weddings among professionals in Dar es Salaam -- 10. Born to be less equal: The predicament of the girl child in Tanzania -- 11. Two models of co-operation: Development institutions and market sellers in Tabora -- 12. Gender relations in a traditional irrigation scheme in Northern Tanzania