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Author: Smita Mishra Panda Publisher: ISBN: 9788178297712 Category : Sex discrimination against women Languages : en Pages : 369
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The focus of the book is on engendering governance institutions that advance the cause of gender equality. The issues of gender equality and women's empowerment are subjects of current interest. This is because over the years very little progress has been achieved on these aspects. Economic reforms in a developing country like India result in constant transformation in the socio-economic and political systems. Hence it becomes important to correctly interpret the role of the multiple stakeholders in governance, namely the state, civil society and the market. By including market institutions in this debate, this book broadened the canvas of what was meant by engendering governance.
Author: Smita Mishra Panda Publisher: ISBN: 9788178297712 Category : Sex discrimination against women Languages : en Pages : 369
Book Description
The focus of the book is on engendering governance institutions that advance the cause of gender equality. The issues of gender equality and women's empowerment are subjects of current interest. This is because over the years very little progress has been achieved on these aspects. Economic reforms in a developing country like India result in constant transformation in the socio-economic and political systems. Hence it becomes important to correctly interpret the role of the multiple stakeholders in governance, namely the state, civil society and the market. By including market institutions in this debate, this book broadened the canvas of what was meant by engendering governance.
Author: International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women Publisher: UN ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 344
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This book contains three comparative case studies to show how gender issues are dealt with in the political structures of the Dominican Republic, Romania and South Africa. These countries were chosen because they are in the process of development and structural reform, with the strong involvement of the international community. The case studies examine two issues that are common to all three countries (violence against women and reproductive health) and one issue specific to each country.
Author: Niamh Gaynor Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000597067 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 145
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This book investigates women’s political participation in Africa. Going beyond the formal institutions of electoral politics, it explores a range of spaces where everyday politics take place, at national and at local levels. In recent years there have been significant improvements in the number of women elected to parliament in Africa. However, there is little indication that this is translating into better developmental outcomes, and indeed there is mounting evidence that it could in fact help to bolster some authoritarian regimes. Starting from the premise that politics is a far broader project than securing a seat in national or local legislatures alone, this book explores the opportunities for women’s political participation across a number of informal spaces where women and men gather, organise and interact in a more regular and systematic manner. Combining insights from political science, sociology and feminist theory and drawing on detailed cases from the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria and Rwanda, it examines how power in its multiple dimensions circulates across a range of everyday political spaces, while drawing attention to the links between domestic gender inequalities and the global political economy. Inviting scholars, practitioners and activists to broaden their focus beyond formal electoral institutions if they want to support women to become more politically active, this book provides fresh insights into major issues at the heart of African studies, development studies, gender and development, democratisation, and international relations.
Author: Georgina Waylen Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191530166 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 256
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What has been the impact of transitions to democracy on gender relations? What roles have women's mobilizations played in processes of democratization? In a new and over-arching thematic analysis, Engendering Transitions answers these questions by comparing the transitions from state socialism and authoritarianism that took place as part of the 'third wave' of democratization that swept the world from the mid 1970s onwards. Using empirical material drawn from eight case study countries in East Central Europe and Latin America as well as South Africa, Georgina Waylen explores the gendered constraints and opportunities provided by processes of democratization and economic restructuring. This book uses a sophisticated analytical framework that brings together the analysis of key actors and institutions and shows that, under certain conditions, transitions to democracy can result in some positive gender outcomes such as improvements in women's political representation and more 'gender sensitive' policy in areas such as domestic violence. Georgina Waylen argues that women's mobilization during transitions is no guarantee of success and change is easier to achieve in some areas than others. Understanding the roles that can be played by organized women's movements, key actors and the wider political environment is crucial in helping us to explain why these gender outcomes vary in different contexts. This book addresses important debates within the study of both comparative politics and gender and politics and substantially improves our understanding of the ways in which transitions to democracy are gendered.
Author: Debbie Budlender Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat ISBN: 9780850927351 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 116
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This guide provides practitioners, politicians and policy communities with the basic information needed to understand gender-responsive budgets and to start initiatives based on their own local situations.
Author: Georgina Waylen Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199248036 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 256
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Using empirical material from eight case studies in East Central Europe and Latin America as well as South Africa, this book explores the gendered constraints and opportunities provided by processes of democratization.
Author: Asuman Özgür Keysan Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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This thesis asks how women's organisations are affected by and responding to the promotion and institutionalisation of civil society in Turkey, as led by the European Union (EU). More specifically, I enquire into the civil society discourses articulated by members of women's organisations in the country in order to evaluate the extent to which they reflect or contest hegemonic views of civil society currently in circulation. I employ feminist critical discourse analysis to make sense of forty-one semi-structured interviews conducted with women activists from Kemalist, Islamic, Kurdish, feminist and anti-capitalist organisations, and of their group documents. I make four main sets of empirical arguments about this data, namely that members of women's organisations in Turkey articulate diverse discourses of civil society; that these discourses cut across different organisations in ways that belie what are often seen as fundamental ideological differences in the Turkish context; that these discourses show women activists in Turkey do not passively reproduce dominant views of civil society, even if many cling to it as a normative ideal; and that there is evidence of important critiques of and/or resistance to civil society, and of its outright rejection, meriting wider attention amongst activists and analysts. With these arguments, the thesis contributes to the literature on NGO construction of civil society in Turkey and the Middle East, and on the women's movement in Turkey, and to the feminist theorisation of civil society.
Author: Naval Postgraduate Naval Postgraduate School Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781512184389 Category : Languages : en Pages : 104
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Nigeria has experienced high economic growth over the last 15 years. Hailed as the "Giant of Africa," the Economist confirmed in 2014 that Nigeria had the largest gross domestic product in the continent. Yet, after more than a decade of sustained growth using international metrics of measurement, the country has exhibited dismal performance across multiple measures of development, security, and democratic governance due to the mismanagement of its economic resources. The majority of Nigerians attest to this in successive Afrobarometer Network and Transparency International surveys conducted between 2008 and 2014. This thesis acknowledges these facts but draws the reader into an equally important exploration of the role of the masses and civil society in engendering democratic governance. The underlying premise is that civil society can play a role in facilitating representative governance, especially as it relates to service delivery and the Nigerian populace's security. The thesis posits that civil society has been handicapped in its ability to fulfill this charter for three distinct reasons: weakened traditional institutions; lack of social capital and trust between the masses, civil society, and the state; and the detrimental impact of a primarily oil- and mineral-based economic model. These factors all hinder the government's willingness to work toward the best interest of the society as a whole.
Author: Rachel Elfenbein Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 1477319166 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 284
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In 1999, Venezuela became the first country in the world to constitutionally recognize the socioeconomic value of housework and enshrine homemakers’ social security. This landmark provision was part of a larger project to transform the state and expand social inclusion during Hugo Chávez’s presidency. The Bolivarian revolution opened new opportunities for poor and working-class—or popular—women’s organizing. The state recognized their unpaid labor and maternal gender role as central to the revolution. Yet even as state recognition enabled some popular women to receive public assistance, it also made their unpaid labor and organizing vulnerable to state appropriation. Offering the first comprehensive analysis of this phenomenon, Engendering Revolution demonstrates that the Bolivarian revolution cannot be understood without comprehending the gendered nature of its state-society relations. Showcasing field research that comprises archival analysis, observation, and extensive interviews, these thought-provoking findings underscore the ways in which popular women sustained a movement purported to exalt them, even while many could not access social security and remained socially, economically, and politically vulnerable.
Author: Smita Mishra Panda
Author: Smita Mishra Panda
Author: International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women
Author: Niamh Gaynor
Author: Georgina Waylen
Author: Valerie Sperling
Author: Debbie Budlender
Author: Georgina Waylen
Author: Asuman Özgür Keysan
Author: Naval Postgraduate Naval Postgraduate School
Author: Rachel Elfenbein