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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... violence against women.32 For a 1992 volume on women's legal literacy, Akua Kuenyehia of Ghana wrote a piece explaining the impediments to implementation of laws protecting women when magistrates, judges, banks and police do not ...
... violence against women as a “family matter,” and further victimize a victim of rape. In each case, the officials' biases and attitudes (stemming from custom, practice and competing normative frameworks) preclude honest implementation ...
... violent action or strategic spaces within institutions.” For more on the global movement, see The Global Women's Movement: Origins, Issues and Strategies, Peggy Atrobus, Zed Books, 2004. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 The author does Greenberg ...
... violence] abuse unless complemented by cultural changes (personal empowerment, education and the development of critical thinking and skills). Economic development alone, which is often seen as the solution to inequality, will not ...
... violence, rape, employment discrimination, and sexual harassment in the workplace. Their staff and volunteers conduct in-country research through close collaboration with local women's non-governmental organizations, and their reports ...