Power, Gender, and Social Change in AfricaMuna Ndulo, Margaret Grieco Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009 - 397 pages 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 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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... rights as human rights must face the same conundrum that feminist legal scholars have articulated , namely , " how can universal human rights be legitimized in radically different societies without succumbing to either homogenizing ...
... human rights law . As feminist legal scholar Hilary Charlesworth has demonstrated , the structures supporting women's human rights are more fragile than the mainstream human rights instruments , which do not address gender - specific ...
... Human Rights 284 ( 2004 ) . 12 See , for example , Paul Collier , The Bottom Billion : Why The Poorest Countries Are Failing And What To Do About It ( 2007 ) ; Jeffrey D. Sachs , The End Of Poverty ( 2006 ) And William Easterly , The ...
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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