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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... argued that women are equally good legislators and executives, that their “femaleness” does not interfere with their capacities for leadership, and that they should be judged on the same criteria as men. This strategy preserves the ...
... argue for an “embodied” citizenship as a replacement for the abstract universal “citizen,” as a way of recognizing ... argues that there is no such thing as a “prediscursive” body: “...there is no recourse to a body that has not always ...
... argues: Rather than assuming that women exist as political subjects a priori, that is, outside of their representation in political forms, processes and discourses, I am wanting to explore how 'women' are fashioned as different kinds of ...
... argue that when that tradition is combined with appeals to women's rights based on feminist appropriations of ... argument about women acting from their material positions as mothers, nor an argument that employs an essentialist ...
... citizen and her daughter had been denied a Botswana passport. In court the government appealed to customary law, arguing first that the Constitution was premised upon “the traditional view” that a child born 66 Chapter Three.