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..........................................................................................
... Citizenship Act, and Public Service Act (WLRI, p. 11). In USAID's earlier women's rights program, Global Women in Politics (GWIP) reported that its partners were “instrumental in shaping the laws and institutions addressing domestic ...
... citizenship and affiliation.” Reportedly, the mixing of the three groups was not at all successful. The MPs lacked the background and knowledge of the key bills and so were caught looking uninformed—even if, in fact, they were informed ...
... , 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.
... citizenship is perceived not only as the denial of civil and political rights, but also as the denial of personhood itself, claims about citizenship can become passionate. In Africa's environment of “new democracies” and new ...