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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Mobilizing for Change Locally and Globally African Women as Scholar-Activists in Feminist and Gender Studies Mary J. Osirim..............................................................................................94 6.
... International Studies; the Africana Studies and Research Center; Cornell Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA); the Department of History; the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program; and the Gender and Global Change Program.
GWIP GWS Africa HBE HDI HIV HPI HRBA HRW ICCPR ICESCR ICG IDP IDS IDW IPU IFI IPPF JEM MDG MDICP MMR MP MSF MST NDI NEPAD NGAE NGO OCHA OECD Global Women in Politics Gender and Women's Studies for Africa's Transformation Project ...
... case studies, research, and policies as well as conceptual and theoretical pieces. Chapter one addresses promoting gender equality and women's participation in parliament and political efficacy; chapter two looks at mobilization and ...
... economic roots of African women's political participation; Chapter five revisits the issue of mobilization by looking at it through scholarship and gender studies. Chapter six continues the debate on mobilization and scholarship.