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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... focused on the common goals of humanity. It is now 2009, twenty-four years after the Nairobi Conference, fourteen years after the Beijing Conference and well over half-way to the target date for reaching the Millennium Development Goals ...
... focus on land rights and agricultural sustainability and women's contributions. The final chapter, fifteen, looks at how conflict and its attendant effects— displacement and violence—impact on women. This book will have achieved its ...
... focus was particularly “legalistic”—ignoring in many ways some fundamental lessons of development, such as being needs-driven, seeking to build capacity, and concerns for sustainability. Third, and most importantly, because the two ...
... focus away from the express women's rights targets of the Platform. Rather than seeking on a national level to ensure that governments meet their Beijing pledges (as well as commitments under the Convention on the Elimination of all ...
... 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 seeking ...