Power, Gender and Social Change in AfricaRaj Bardouille, Margaret Grieco Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009 M03 26 - 359 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 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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... University Institute for African Development has contributed to our understanding of the issues affecting African women in the new millennium by producing this important collection. I was delighted to be the keynote speaker at the event ...
... University of Cape Town. As a result of her pathbreaking environmental rights activism, Wangari Maathai became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. There are undoubtedly countless unknown women who are on the forefront ...
... University) and Cornell University departments and units including the Einaudi Center for International Studies; the Africana Studies and Research Center; Cornell Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA); the Department of History; the ...
... University philosophy, where service is a priority. This book proceeds on the assumption that academia matters when it comes to knowledge and analytical skills in addressing societal problems. Issues such as the ones dealt with in this ...
... universities abroad. Upon their return many of these women, well versed in feminist theory and praxis from experience overseas and well aware of the pitfalls of national independence from experience elsewhere in Africa, joined forces ...