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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... (Emang Basadi 1998: 26). When women have entered the political space of the kgotla—the village meeting of adult males—they have been defined as acting for men (as when women acted as regents for male heirs to chiefship); or their ...
... Emang Basadi! (Stand Up, Women!) in 1986 and attempted to lobby the government to change the law, as well as to educate women about their existing rights through conferences, workshops and pamphlets. The intransigence of government ...
... Emang Basadi. But government continued to stonewall, not actually changing the legislation and even threatening to ... Emang Basadi switched to a direct electoral strategy: if men in government were unresponsive to women's issues, they ...
... Emang Basadi and other women's groups—and, with support from Emang Basadi, chiefship itself has become open to women (Matemba 2005). Emang Basadi can be seen as involved in the liberal democratic project of constituting female citizens ...
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