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
... achieving respect for women's rights and gender equality at the national level. This is about women's rights activists working within their own countries to change laws, implementation and practices. This is about translating ...
... achieving de facto 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 ...
... achieving gender equality. Structure of the Chapter The chapter is presented in four parts. The first situates the ... achieve similar results in a wide range of contexts, these frameworks offer a way to consider the appropriateness ...
... achieving their objective. My puzzlement, which has been bothering me now for several years, was this: Was it possible that the women's organizations had been misadvised? Was the advocacy approach not the right one for their context ...
... achieve measurable changes within the funding periods risked distorting the approaches or sacrificing longer-term, more sustainable impacts for short term results. Women's organizations might be empowered, but Americans would still be ...