Power, Gender, and Social Change in AfricaMuna Ndulo, Margaret Grieco Gender plays a hugely significant and too often under-considered role in predicting how accessible resources such as education, wage-based employment, physical and mental health care, adequate nutrition and housing will be to an individual or community. According to a 2001 World Bank report titled Engendering Developmentâ "Through Gender Equality in Rights, Resources, and Voice, enormous disparities exist between men and women in terms of basic rights and the power to determine the future, both in Africa and around the globe. A better understanding of the links between gender, public policy and development outcomes would allow for more effective policy formulation and implementation at many levels. This book, through its discussion of the challenges, achievements and lessons learned in efforts to attain gender equality, sheds light on these important issues. The book contains chapters from an interdisciplinary group of scholars, including sociologists, economists, political scientists, scholars of law, anthropologists, historians and others. The work includes analysis of strategic gender initiatives, case studies, research, and policies as well as conceptual and theoretical pieces. With its format of ideas, resources and recorded experiences as well as theoretical models and best practices, the book is an important contribution to academic and political discourse on the intricate links between gender, power, and social change in Africa and around the world. |
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... studies programs . At a more fundamental level , however , gender - studies scholars can be and often are activists in the choices they make as scholars and teachers . This is exemplified first in the very topics they select for ...
Muna Ndulo, Margaret Grieco. development of feminist and gender - studies scholarship , both on the continent and beyond . African gender - studies scholars based on the continent have provided valuable additions to the discourse on ...
... Studies in Family Planning 25 : 41-51 . Makerere University Gender Studies Program . www.makkerere.ac.ug/women studies / background / html . Malawi Government & UNDP Malawi . 2002. " The impact of HIV / AIDS_on_human resources in the ...
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Powerful Mothers and Equal Rights | 60 |
The Economic Roots of African Womens Political Participation | 77 |
Activisim Scholarship and Gender | 94 |
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