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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... African women attempting to exercise citizenship rights or claim citizenship entitlements today must engage these African/European constructions—of political membership and citizenship, and especially of political leadership—as “male ...
... African political contexts and history potentially offer a very different “solution” for women challenging the false universalism of citizenship and the strongly male-gendered construct of leadership—one based on “embodied” citizenship ...
... African constructions of women as “mothers” have historically been sources of power for women to use to protect their own interests as “women,” as well as acting as “mothers” to protect their children, and African women in many ...
... African women citizens and political leaders can draw on a long historical tradition of powerful mothers, and I would argue that when that tradition is combined with appeals to women's rights based on feminist appropriations of liberal ...
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