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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... advocates: Is a law-focused women's rights advocacy the right tool, or the only tool, for achieving de facto respect for women's rights in Africa at the national and local levels?5 Targeted women's rights advocacy is one approach, while ...
... advocates, help to clarify the professional problem.8 To lay the foundations for the technical aspects of the discussion, the term “women's rights advocacy” is defined for the purposes of this chapter. The second section introduces ...
... advocacy approach not the right one for their context, and should they perhaps have approached the social change objective, changing women's standing and status within the family, differently? The second situation involved participation ...
... advocate for law reform. Yet problems may arise when new laws become the primary focus.10 While that was better, it still struck me that it was not good enough. It seemed still that pressures to achieve measurable changes within the ...
... advocacy be a mechanism that does not operate effectively everywhere? The issue is how best to achieve dignity and equal opportunities for women within families ... Advocacy” The focal concern of Greenberg: Women's Rights Advocacy 33.