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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... context of today's world are not debatable. A number of conventions and declarations have been adopted over the years to deal with such issues: the Convention for the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women,2 the 1993 ...
... contexts. This chapter explores how women's rights programs typically rely on activities grounded in liberal legal assumptions. The alternative, it suggests, is to re-frame the objective: from one that is technical, i.e. “fixing” legal ...
... Context: Two Steps Forward but One Step Back? This chapter takes as a given the global objective of realizing respect for women's rights and gender equality.1 The issue under examination is not the goal, but rather the means of ...
... context”: the Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in 1995, was a historic milestone in global efforts for women's rights. The global scope, the level of participation, and the consensus on recognizing and respecting ...
... contexts like their own. Readers' responses to this chapter will differ depending on their national and cultural frameworks: For Americans, the chapter urges caution and some re-thinking of the appropriateness and effectiveness of the ...