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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... relation to its Increased Public Awareness of Women's Legal Rights, the WLR states “Women need to be trained in legal and political participation, advocacy, coalition-building, and networking to ensure that the general public becomes ...
... relations, law and social change in Africa, they might recognize some challenges and opportunities not revealed when using liberal legal templates. If, once grounded in the realities of most lives in Africa, we reject the assumptions ...
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... relations within local contexts and experimentation with new approaches. It is hoped that such cross-disciplinary and crossregional dialogue may promote sustainable social change through contextrelevant, meaningful transformation of ...
... relations of gendered power underlying the law. But the challenge deployed both rights claims and appeals to the powerful aspect of Tswana motherhood validated by kinship values. The Citizenship Amendment Law can be seen as an attempt ...