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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... particularly to “law.”20 And for their purposes, “law” referred to positivist, government-based law. Friedman and Macaulay's article helps us to realize that while people of one community or state may recognize and respect state law ...
... particularly with regard to the Civil Rights movement.23 Anthropologists like Sally Falk Moore,24 however, have pointed to a range of “reglementation” that affects behavior. Robert and Ann Seidman emphasize that laws may seek to ...
... particularly on women's rights advocacy and those who promote advocacy when it is then applied to women's rights issues.27 An important extension of this study would be to consider the work and initiatives of African organizations. Such ...
... particularly because they developed strategies that respected the Shari'a, or Islamic law. Second, the legal recourse is limited, as recognized now by many programs, by issues of access—and access depends upon knowledge, economic ...
... particularly through training As the focus on enacting and reforming laws has produced outputs (laws) but limited impacts (changes in behavior), many women's rights programs have shifted their focus to the people within the institutions ...