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
... women's rights legal advocacy—particularly in Africa, but with some reflection on how that may reflect on practices here in the United States. The question arises within the “Post-Beijing context”: the Fourth World Conference on Women ...
Raj Bardouille, Margaret Grieco. positive social, economic and political changes in women's lives.4 The question, therefore, addresses the methods utilized by national and local rights advocates: Is a law-focused women's rights advocacy the ...
... advocates, help to clarify the professional problem.8 To lay the foundations for the technical aspects of the discussion, the term “women's rights advocacy” is defined for the purposes of this chapter. The second section introduces ...
... women's organizations to enact a new family law. Women's rights advocates had worked on drafting the law and on gaining government support. Pursuant to the process recommended to them, they held a large public ... Women's Rights Advocacy 31.
... women's rights. Might the approach of advocacy be a mechanism that does not operate effectively everywhere? The issue is how best to achieve dignity and ... Women's Rights Advocacy” The focal concern of Greenberg: Women's Rights Advocacy 33.