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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... existing contacts in the NRM, women activists in the late 1980s were invited by the new president to identify women leaders for leadership positions in government (Tripp 2006, 112). Sylvia Tamale (1999) argues that President Yoweri ...
... existing paradigms, this author proposes two hypotheses: (1) that the dominance of American lawyer-type approaches have led to excessive reliance in women's rights advocacy on drafting and passing protective new laws (or removing ...
... existing normative systems, seeking to overcome them as somehow primitive or outdated. “Unfortunately, legal and customary barriers often prevent women from exercising their full legal rights and utilizing existing laws and protections ...
... existing “legal culture,” some programs may regard those who do not want to turn to the courts as uninformed, fearful, or uncooperative. How women deal with family violence, perhaps the most universally targeted women's rights issue ...
... existing reglementation. Women's rights advocates tend to adopt the liberal-legal model and assumptions regarding reglementation and legal culture. They have lost sight of important issues relating to culture and relationships. Were ...