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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... respect for women's rights in Africa at the national and local levels?5 Targeted women's rights advocacy is one approach, while seeking opportunities to promote new roles, the allocation of resources and power, and gender equality ...
... respect local practices, history and objectives. In fact, over the years that ideal of “cultural sensitivity” that had seemed to be a development imperative, has become “politically correct” and somewhat of a “knee-jerk” response ...
... respect for and enjoyment of women's rights. Might the approach of advocacy be a mechanism that does not operate effectively everywhere? The issue is how best to achieve dignity and equal opportunities for women within families ...
... respect for that right. Table 2-2 Becoming a Human Rights Advocate Step by Step GOALS Name the Gain acceptance of Assure the human the right by inclusion right's METHODS Research & fact-finding Political action through: Monitoring 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 obstacle to “normal” social and economic processes ...