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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... issues. The chapters of the book include analysis of strategic gender initiatives, case studies, research, and policies as well as conceptual and theoretical pieces. Chapter one addresses promoting gender equality and women's ...
... issue of mobilization by looking at it through scholarship and gender studies. Chapter six continues the debate on ... issues of power, gender and social change in Africa and around the world. Notes 2 3 1 Engendering Development ...
... issues are in conflict with the party interest, what position will these women [in reserved seats] take?” A concern expressed by many women activists in Tanzania is the potential for a two-tiered system of legislators when reserved ...
... issues or natural resource management6—may be another.7 A sub-hypothesis of this chapter is that Americans (and some Europeans) who are either lawyers or are infected by their own legal systems have promoted “women's rights advocacy ...
... issues are not only programmatic but also disciplinary as they arise from the roles played by lawyers engaged in the field of international development. Some personal reflections that illustrate the contradictions between the worlds of ...