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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... ..................................................... 26 3. Radical Citizenship: Powerful Mothers and Equal Rights Judith Van Allen...........................................................................................60 4 ...
... mothers of two African countries—South Africa and Rwanda. Electoral quota systems discussed herein are one way to jumpstart the kind of participation in the legislative sector that is needed to implement even the best constitution ...
... mother or sister, so you should not hurt someone else's mother or sister. Any ambitious agenda for social change cannot ... mothers to talk to their sons and daughters about gender-based violence. It will take men and women to value the ...
... by experience, but also enriched and strengthened by inclusion of voices and leadership from the South. 33 34 35 36 37 CHAPTER THREE RADICAL CITIZENSHIP: POWERFUL MOTHERS AND EQUAL RIGHTS Judith Greenberg: Women's Rights Advocacy 59.
Raj Bardouille, Margaret Grieco. CHAPTER. THREE. RADICAL. CITIZENSHIP: POWERFUL. MOTHERS. AND. EQUAL. RIGHTS. Judith Van Allen Liberal democratic citizenship, in many times and places rather taken for granted, is today widely contested as ...