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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... organizations have adopted it. As will be explained below, the primary concern is that the liberal legal model fails to take account of cultural differences. Examples taken from African women's organizations show how components of their ...
... organizations to enact a new family law. Women's rights advocates had worked on drafting the law and on gaining government support. Pursuant to the process recommended to them, they held a large public meeting to introduce the draft law ...
... organizations, for them to advocate for law reform. Yet problems may arise when new laws become the primary focus.10 While that was better, it still struck me that it was not good enough. It seemed still that pressures to achieve ...
... organizational capacity—may be a heavily legalistic approach that is particularly suited to the context of the United States but is oddly out of place elsewhere. At best, it may be ineffective; at worst, it may be counter-productive ...
... organizations work together on a new Family Law, and through their contacts succeed in gaining the President's agreement to support it. • After the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995, a group of women organizes a legal literacy ...