Power, Gender and Social Change in AfricaGender 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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Women and Inheritance under Customary Law: The Response of the Courts Muna Ndulo ............................................................................................... 251 13. Land Reforms, Land Titling and Gender Dilemmas In ...
See Patricia Williams, “Spirit-Murdering the Messenger: The Discourse of Finger-Pointing as the Law's Response to Racism,” 42 U. Miami L. Rev. 127, 129 (1987). See Adrien Katherine Wing & Richard Johnson, The Promise of the PostGenocide ...
Parliamentary women's caucuses that bring together women MPs across party lines have been mooted as one response to this concern. In all three countries, however, they have floundered. In Namibia a caucus has been formed, ...
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 prescribed approach; ...
... become “politically correct” and somewhat of a “knee-jerk” response, losing its original intent and meaning. In some instances the charge of “relativism” is levied against those who do not firmly insist upon the absolutes of rights.