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1 online resource (xviii, 397 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-376). |
| 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 -- 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 -- 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 ... |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Women in development -- Africa -- Congresses.
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Women in development. |
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Africa. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Ndulo, Muna.
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Grieco, Margaret, 1950-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Power, gender, and social change in Africa. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009 9781443805827 (DLC) 2009512065 (OCoLC)319584241 |
| ISBN |
1443805823 (cloth) |
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9781443805827 (cloth) |
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9781443806282 (electronic book) |
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1443806285 (electronic book) |
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