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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... challenge, debate, and efforts to convince others—even around the dinner table?11 Women's empowerment and advocacy projects may be promoting a model, a “Standard Operating Procedure,” for women, women activists, and women's NGOs; and ...
... challenge practices and enforce the law. In nearly all cases, however, laws are pivotal—passing, changing, building awareness of, applying or enforcing them. Some typical scenarios: • A women's bar association works with MPs in ...
... challenges those choosing positive law as the primary tool for change to check their presumptions about state-enacted law having the power to affect behavior and attitudes—to counter or have greater sway than other normative sources—of ...
... challenges and opportunities not revealed when using liberal legal templates. If, once grounded in the realities of most lives in Africa, we reject the assumptions that the State is the primary agent of social control and change, and ...
... challenge the liberal-legal model, to investigate legal culture, and to recognize the many sorts of “reglementation” that define and direct the roles and responsibilities of boys and girls, old and young, women and men. Illustrations of ...