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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... problems experienced when relying on state laws are real and pervasive. Hence more and more projects target the people responsible for applying the laws—the judges and magistrates, lawyers and paralegals, court clerks and police. The ...
... problem squarely: that they still emphasize high-level institutions, focus too much on courts, and assume an evolution toward a liberal-legal model as the mechanism for defining and enforcing rules. There is still frustration with those ...
... but targeted on the real problems of attitudes and behaviors. For southern women and lawyers who have ably mastered much of the law reform and advocacy tactics as “the” way to promote rights and achieve social change, this 54 Chapter Two.
... problems and issues that have been major constraints and hindrances for African women in the past,” including “the right to inheritance, widowhood, affirmative action to promote equal access and participation in politics and decision ...
... Problem of Knowledge,” Thomas Carothers, Working Paper (2003), Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. See also “International Support for Civil Justice Reform in Developing and Transition Countries: An Overview and Evaluation ...