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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... citizenship rights or claim citizenship entitlements today must engage these African/European constructions—of political membership and citizenship, and especially of political leadership—as “male,” that is, as something only men ...
... citizenship and leadership. Some feminist theorists argue for an “embodied” citizenship as a replacement for the abstract universal “citizen,” as a way of recognizing the male-gendered historical construction of citizenship and of ...
... citizenship. It is crucial to understand that women are “constituted” as citizens, as Linzi Manicom argues: Rather than assuming that women exist as political subjects a priori, that is, outside of their representation in political ...
... citizenship”—the workshops and trainings and conferences that teach women how to enter politics and thereby “constitute” liberal democratic citizens and leaders. (Cruickshank, 1999, cited in Manicom 2005:34) But “becoming citizens” and ...
... the legacy of “kgotla democracy” underlies malegendered liberal democratic structures and practices, posing significant barriers to women's political activism and leadership. But both Tswana Van Allen: Radical Citizenship 65.