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 DevelopmentThrough 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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Some practices and behaviors may not be determined by laws ( even in the
United States ) . In Africa , there are historic strata : norms and practices that date
back centuries ; customary law reflecting interpretations and colonial laws ; and ...
Anthropologist Corinne Packer , for example , has examined the way in which a
whole range of diverse practices in Africa , including early marriage and
pregnancy , dietary taboos , circumcision , scarification , incisions in pregnant
women ...
Her ethnography portrays the multiple beliefs , values and norms that shape the
varied practices that are collectively ... Gruenbaum begins with the controversial
discussion about what to call the practice , as it is referred to also as Female ...
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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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