‘If you build him, he will build’: Rural Tanzanian women’s agency through home construction
研究坦桑尼亚农村女性如何利用社区银行的话语和实践，在盖房过程中凸显自身在预算、储蓄和规划方面的技能，从而在家庭和婚姻中争取更平等的地位。
Abstract This study explores how rural women mobilize discourses and practices from their village community bank to shape the construction of both “house” and “home”. I argue that women in rural Moshi, Tanzania, centre themselves in house construction by foregrounding their skills in budgeting, saving, and making plans, and in the home by centring trust, transparency, and their own agency in developing more equal marriage partners. They apply community bank discourse and practice to other ways of relating to others—in this case, their husbands, but more broadly, to potential sponsors and advocates. In the literal building of houses together, wives in rural Moshi metaphorically build themselves into particular kinds of “modern” subjects and their husbands into “modern” partners and collaborators, though these discourses are not equally accessible.