Power, Gender, and Social Change in AfricaGender 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 Developmentā "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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The city of Lilongwe is divided into several subdivisions called areas . Some of these areas have number names and others have traditional Malawian names ( see Figure 8-1 ) . We were interested in interviewing in five areas , namely ...
who provision their rural areas , as well as towns and cities all over Africa . The literature on them is substantial ( e.g. , MacGaffey 1987 ; Clark 1994 , 1998 ; Horn 1994 , 1998 ; Arould 1995 ; House - Midamba and Ekechi 1995 ...
In urban areas , informal vendors use both informal and formal sector - wholesale markets for produce . In most places , there is a gender division of labor . Women trade produce , food , cloth , crafts , and pottery , while men trade ...
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Contents
Powerful Mothers and Equal Rights | 60 |
The Economic Roots of African Womens Political Participation | 77 |
Activisim Scholarship and Gender | 94 |
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