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 them.” Similarly, former Ugandan MP Matembe argues that women in Uganda “have been trapped and have become hostages to the quota system, which was originally introduced to liberate them” (2006, 8). In Matembe's view, Ugandan ...
... Challenging the Accepted Approach The primary purpose of this chapter is to apply some analytical tools from the fields of law and development to assess common practices of women's rights advocacy. The initial hypothesis is that ...
... challenges and approaches do not introduce much that is new for those engaged in gender and development or in feminist ... challenge. The Historical Context: Two Steps Forward but One Step Back? This chapter takes as a given the global ...
... challenges than anticipated, and more importantly, the Ten-Year Review (2005) revealing that women's rights seem to be ever more under attack and at risk not only in such countries as Iran and Afghanistan, but also in Poland and the ...
... challenges. For the Diaspora, a call to re-assess the efficacy of an accepted methodology abroad presents an opportunity to reflect on whether those methods have in fact achieved the results promised for African-Americans (and others) ...