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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... mean that US NGO-implementing partners might feel compelled to lobby in foreign legislatures for new laws (though such “lobbying” does happen as American organizations work with elected officials, staff, members of the judiciary, etc ...
... women's rights within culture? I wonder about how the means, effectiveness and sustainability depend on understanding and reflecting tradition and culture. Those three sources of reflection have led, therefore, to questions 32 Chapter Two.
... means achieving broad-based, sustainable changes in attitudes and behaviors among urban and rural men and women, young and old. Thus it is the “how” that introduces the questions and concepts of “law and development”, i.e. of how law ...
... means of ensuring the enjoyment of that right, especially when civil society (legal professionals or citizen activists) works with representatives of an executive branch or with members of a legislative body to gain the enactment of new ...
... mean that women's legal rights will be implemented and enforced. It is only when the courts as well as other judicial players...fully understand the rights of women that they can be expected to enforce these rights through the judicial ...