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Title Power, gender, and social change in Africa / edited by Muna Ndulo and Margaret Grieco
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 397 pages)
Contents Taking the fast track to Parliament: comparing electoral gender quotas in eastern and southern Africa /rGretchen Bauer -- Women's rights advocacy versus gender and development programming: complementary or alternative strategies? / Marcia Greenberg -- Radical citizenship: powerful mothers and equal rights / Judith Van Allen -- The economic roots of African women's political participation / Claire Robertson -- Mobilizing for change locally and globally: African women as scholar-activists in feminists and gender studies / Mary J. Osirim -- The anthropological collaborator: feminist scholarship and activism in Africa -- Maternal mortality and transport : Africa's burden / Margaret Grieco -- Women in Chinsapo, Malawi : vulnerability and risk of HIV/AIDS / Jayati Ghosh and Ezekiel Kalipeni -- Islam and girl's schooling in sub-Saharan Africa : exploring the size and sources of the gender gap in education / Fatou Jah -- Gender equity in African tertiary education systems : a critical look at women's progress / Philomina Okeke-Ihejirika -- Imagine all the women : power, gender and the transformative possibilities of the South African Constitution / Penelope E. Andrews -- Women and inheritance under customary law : the response of the courts / Muna Ndulo -- Land reforms, land titling and gender dilemmas in Africa : an exploration of issues / Susie Jacobs -- Empowering women in the African entrepreneurial landscape : micro-entrepreneurs to business globalists in the formal and informal sectors / Anita Spring -- Armed conflict, displacement, gender-based violence in Africa and "anomie, " the case of Darfur / Kabahenda Nyakabwa
Summary 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, bot ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-376)
Notes English
Subject Women in development -- Africa -- Congresses
Gender studies: women.
Social research & statistics.
HIV -- AIDS: social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Women in development
Africa
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Ndulo, Muna
Grieco, Margaret, 1950-
ISBN 1443805823
9781443805827
9781443806282
1443806285
1282334018
9781282334014
9786612334016
6612334010