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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Former Ugandan MP Miria Matembe (2006, 9) confirms this view: as a patronage
opportunity, she argues, the quota ... Others critics argue that a small body such
as an electoral college is especially susceptible to bribery and intimidation and ...
Some feminist theorists argue for an “embodied” citizenship as a replacement for
the abstract universal “citizen,” as a way ... Judith Butler argues that there is no
such thing as a “prediscursive” body: “...there is no recourse to a body that has
not ...
This is not an argument about women acting from their material positions as
mothers, nor an argument that employs an essentialist construction of “women”
as “mothers.” It is an argument about political strategy: about what activists can
take ...
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