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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... focus on one piece without worrying about the other necessary changes. The elements included the centrality of the State, the State as primary agent of social control and change, and a focus on higher agencies such as legislatures and ...
... focus—revealing flaws in their basic assumptions and questions about their results. The referenced activities are ... focused particularly on women's rights advocacy and those who promote advocacy when it is then applied to women's ...
... focus on government institutions and state-based law: 1) institutional strengthening (primarily capacity of and ... Focusing on laws and legislative frameworks Often a first step for women's rights advocates is to assess and address the ...
... focus on failures of implementation or enforcement, thereby blaming a lack of resources or a failure of political ... focus on enacting and reforming laws has produced outputs (laws) but limited impacts (changes in behavior), many ...
... focus too much on courts, and assume an evolution toward a liberal-legal model as the mechanism for defining and enforcing rules. There is still frustration with those who, instead of trusting state-enacted law and turning to it as a ...