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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... Legal Framework, Human Rights, Conflict, and Economic Empowerment 11. Imagine All the Women Power, Gender and the Transformative Possibilities of the South African Constitution ... Customary Law: The Response of the Courts Muna Ndulo ...
... customary law and the impact of traditional values on gender relations. Women face some of the greatest challenges in the labor and production sectors. Chapters thirteen and fourteen focus on land rights and agricultural sustainability ...
... law in marriage, the 2000 Combating of Rape Act that prescribes minimum sentences for rape and places more emphasis ... customary practices discriminating against women be declared unconstitutional. Schwartz (2004, 43, 62) found for ...
... law and development”, i.e. of how law-related advocacy functions in contexts different from that of America or ... customary law reflecting interpretations and colonial laws; and, more recently, norms and laws promoted by multilateral ...
... law and the structures of institutions; rather, they urged consideration of a third part: legal culture. “Legal ... customary law when it suits them, well aware that such laws are flexible, unwritten and can be manipulated by those who ...