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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... primary agent of social control and change, and a focus on higher agencies such as legislatures and courts—with little interest in non-state forms of legal and social ordering. A central question was therefore whether Americans were ...
... primary tool for change to check their presumptions about state-enacted law having the power to affect behavior and attitudes—to counter or have greater sway than other normative sources—of diverse nations and communities of Africans ...
... primary and controlling systems for people's behavior. Thus, while laws are statements of norms, they take primary attention as compared with the many other statements and sources of norms. The privileging of that system of ...
... primary importance to “enhancement of the reported capacity of selected government agencies and civil society organizations to prepare, draft, advocate for, adopt and implement gender-responsive legislation, regulation and policy ...
... primary agent of social control and change, and that the State will use law to transform society, then there is a rationale for shifting from law-related tactics that target legal systems to development-related approaches focused on ...