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 Development 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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Chapter Three Radical Citizenship: Powerful Mothers and Equal Rights Judith
Van Allen Liberal democratic citizenship, in many times and places rather taken
for granted, is today widely contested as globalizing capitalism drives increasing
...
Chapter Three Radical Citizenship: Powerful Mothers and Equal Rights Judith
Van Allen Liberal democratic citizenship, in many times and places rather taken
for granted, is today widely contested as globalizing capitalism drives increasing
...
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African women attempting to exercise citizenship rights or claim citizenship
entitlements today must engage these African/European constructions — of
political membership and citizenship, and especially of political leadership — as "
male," ...
African women attempting to exercise citizenship rights or claim citizenship
entitlements today must engage these African/European constructions — of
political membership and citizenship, and especially of political leadership — as "
male," ...
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In contrast, African political contexts and history potentially offer a very different "
solution" for women challenging the false universalism of citizenship and the
strongly male-gendered construct of leadership — one based on "embodied" ...
In contrast, African political contexts and history potentially offer a very different "
solution" for women challenging the false universalism of citizenship and the
strongly male-gendered construct of leadership — one based on "embodied" ...
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Comparing Electoral Gender Quotas in Eastern and Southern Africa | 8 |
Powerful Mothers and Equal Rights | 60 |
The Economic Roots of African Womens Political Participation | 77 |
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