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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... inequality, and to work for social change to improve the lives of the most marginalized, Trubek and Galanter wondered “aloud” whether their methods were in fact achieving those objectives. Worse still, they worried that perhaps they ...
... inequality.22 Thus, while women's organizations might successfully pass laws and train judges, it is possible that this kind of legal advocacy—inherently part of American legal culture—might lack the same resonance or impact in other ...
... inequality, will not automatically lead to the improvement of governance systems or the advancement and exercise of rights” (IDS 40-41). Still, the solution is assumed to lie within perfecting and gaining access to a liberal legal ...
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