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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... behaviors relating particularly to “law.”20 And for their purposes, “law” referred to positivist, government-based law. Friedman and Macaulay's article helps us to realize that while people of one community or state may recognize and ...
... behavior. Robert and Ann Seidman emphasize that laws may seek to influence the behavior of two different groups of “role occupants”— citizens (directly) and people within the various implementing agencies responsible for applying and ...
... behavior. Thus, while laws are statements of norms, they take primary attention as compared with the many other statements and sources of norms. The privileging of that system of “reglementation” tends to minimize the 42 Chapter Two.
... behavior, including associations that may be “traditional,” religious, or familial, among others. From the Center for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA's) work in Bahrain30 In 2004, the Moroccan government adopted the ...
... behavior-changing approaches. Improving justice and legal sector capabilities, particularly through training As the focus on enacting and reforming laws has produced outputs (laws) but limited impacts (changes in behavior), many women's ...