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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Raj Bardouille, Margaret Grieco. importance of building capacity among members of civil society, e.g. women's organizations, for them to advocate for law reform. Yet problems may arise when new laws become the primary focus.10 While that ...
... importance of context, and the dangers of supply-driven assistance (as compared with that identified and provided in response to particular needs). From the field of Law and Development, three concepts shed new light on how one views ...
... important to remember the extent to which people respond to their peers and respected leaders, work within contexts and environments, act according to what they recognize as their selfinterest, and follow codes and norms from non ...
... important extension of this study would be to consider the work and initiatives of African organizations. Such organizations are often staffed by lawyers who have been trained in the U.S. or Europe or through American/European ...
... important accomplishments: establishing some statements of new norms and providing legal recourse for some. Yet ... importance in people's lives. They put the State in the center and expect, even when legal systems are weak, that they ...