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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... Botswana.4 Women activists in Botswana, as they began to organize in the 1980s, confronted strong resistance to women's entry into the political sphere, and especially to women's leadership. “Politics” and political leadership in ...
... Botswana use claims of rights to expand, reframe, and redirect the meanings of “women,” “equality,” “citizenship” and “leadership”—drawing on both the liberal democratic values expressed in the Botswana Constitution and on the liberal ...
... relations, and the Dow decision as a victory not only for equal rights but for powerful mothers with equal rights. Winning the Citizenship Amendment Case catalyzed the Botswana women's rights Van Allen: Radical Citizenship 67.
... Botswana Democratic Party—which has been in power since independence—as well as loyalty to chiefs, who cannot constitutionally run for office but can and do have significant influence over rural voters.(Emang Basadi 1998:26-27) Emang ...
... Botswana, the most significant of these is class—both urban class and rural/urban class interconnections. It was not accidental that in the first women's inter-party caucus march, organized by Emang Basadi, women carried signs ...