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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... that it is always or entirely or even fundamentally wrong to strive for laws that recognize and protect women's rights. They can, in some instances, establish new norms, provide a mechanism to help some women, or mark an 36 Chapter Two.
... norms and rules, educate young people and resolve disputes. Law and Behavior: “Reglementation” Thirdly, there is a ... norms or signals may affect people's attitudinal or behavioral choices opens the way to considering norms from social ...
... norms and providing legal recourse for some. Yet recalling the Law and Development concepts, such foci are limited ... norms, they take primary attention as compared with the many other statements and sources of norms. The privileging of ...
... norm-focused, behavior-changing approaches. Improving justice and legal sector capabilities, particularly through training As the focus on enacting and reforming laws has produced outputs (laws) but limited impacts (changes in behavior) ...
... norms, and can provide recourse for some, it is also possible that social reglementation and legal culture preclude reliance on public legal mechanisms to stop, punish or get away from violence. It is perhaps in recognition of such ...