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. |
From inside the book
... AIDS in Africa, lamented on how the multilateral system is disgorging a high-level panel of fifteen people to look at the redesign of all those areas of the United Nations system which so significantly address the lives of women, yet ...
... AIDS infection. Chapters nine and ten address the issue of education by looking at Islam and gender inequality in education and access and representation in higher education. Chapters eleven and twelve examine gender, human rights ...
... AIDS. • Women's organizations work together on a new Family Law, and through their contacts succeed in gaining the President's agreement to support it. • After the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995, a group of women organizes a ...
... aid of customary law when it suits them, well aware that such laws are flexible, unwritten and can be manipulated by those who have the power and authority ... I am afraid that culture and religion are conveniently used as instruments ...
... Aid and Counseling program in Botswana, as well as legal aid services and a pre-trial handbook to help women understand the court process in cases of rape in South Africa. Recognizing, perhaps, the limitations of the law, however, they ...