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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... behaviors, pollution.” 4 acute Even when progressive international and national laws are drafted and policies are developed, little actually penetrates into the day-to-day lives of 2 women. The Cornell University Institute for African ...
... behavior, with which many women's rights advocates are not familiar. Predicated on a concern that advocacy is often ... behaviors. The final section also posits that lessons learned by critiquing the effectiveness of legalistic women's ...
... behaviors.12 If the objective is to change discriminatory behavior and practices, such emphasis on laws may lead to excluding other factors—such as education, religion, family norms—that may be more effective. The focus on advocacy ...
... behavior needed to achieve gender equality. Whether a right stems from what has been articulated in international agreements or takes effect because a nation has agreed as party to a treaty or covenant, this chapter focuses on advocacy ...
... behavior. Each is helpful in revealing what may be unstated and unrecognized assumptions regarding the effectiveness of “western” [very often U.S.] approaches to law reform and to the use of law for social change. The Liberal Legal ...