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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... programs may crowd out other options. Donors and implementers may privilege such programs over others. Each time an organization selects a law-focused program, there may be opportunity costs for having foregone an alternative approach ...
... programs, one finds that they do seem to adopt much of the aforementioned model and many of the said assumptions. In fact, they focus a great deal on higherlevel agencies like courts and parliaments. They assume the centrality of the ...
... programs through such law and development lenses raises questions about whether such efforts unduly rely on rights advocacy. This view challenges those choosing positive law as the primary tool for change to check their presumptions ...
... programs of two regional organizations, Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF) and Women and Law in Southern Africa (WLSA). These organizations' legal programs, while sometimes introducing context-driven innovations, tend to ...
... programs that help ensure equality under the law.” Similarly, the WLRI “advances the legal, civil, property, and human rights of women.” It touts as best-practice accomplishments relating to domestic violence in South Africa, noting ...