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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... people can always continue practices despite laws (such as in rural areas where there is little awareness of, or compliance with, the laws). Further, since it is always possible to change the laws back again, the ultimate objective is ...
... people's lives. This legalistic view plays out in legal education efforts that essentially teach people (through workshops and pamphlets) a simplified version of laws, and in advocacy efforts that focus exclusively on legal reform in ...
... people of one community or state may recognize and respect state law, people elsewhere may ignore, scorn and avoid it. In some contexts, citizens may regard law as only a tool of oppression, or may deem it an illegitimate irritation and ...
... people and resolve disputes. Law and Behavior: “Reglementation” Thirdly, there is a commonly held expectation that the passage of new laws is an instrument by which to change people's attitudes and behavior. In part, this stems from ...
... people's lives. They put the State in the center and expect, even when legal systems are weak, that they are evolving into primary and controlling systems for people's behavior. Thus, while laws are statements of norms, they take ...