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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... rule in South Africa and an end to war and transition to multiparty politics in Mozambique, PR electoral systems were adopted in all three countries for national legislative elections. In South Africa this was done with the recognition ...
... rules, educate young people and resolve disputes. Law and Behavior: “Reglementation” Thirdly, there is a commonly held expectation that the passage of new laws is an instrument by which to change people's attitudes and behavior. In part ...
... rules. There is still frustration with those who, instead of trusting state-enacted law and turning to it as a just, reliable and socially acceptable source of redress, seek support elsewhere. The WLRI has reported that in Malawi ...
... rule of law and democracy-building—this chapter posits that perhaps the standardized approaches to women's legal rights advocacy are more rooted in American/western legal culture than is generally recognized. Observing that lobbying and ...
... Rule of Law” instead of “Law and Development.” Twenty years later, and now based on similar concerns stemming from the Eastern European work, Tom Carothers and others affiliated with the Carnegie Institute's Rule of Law project are ...