Civil Society And Gender Justice

Author : Karen Hagemann
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1845458575
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil Society and Gender Justice written by Karen Hagemann and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil society and civic engagement have increasingly become topics of discussion at the national and international level. The editors of this volume ask, does the concept of “civil society” include gender equality and gender justice? Or, to frame the question differently, is civil society a feminist concept? Conversely, does feminism need the concept of civil society? This important volume offers both a revised gendered history of civil society and a program for making it more egalitarian in the future. An interdisciplinary group of internationally known authors investigates the relationship between public and private in the discourses and practices of civil societies; the significance of the family for the project of civil society; the relation between civil society, the state, and different forms of citizenship; and the complex connection between civil society, gendered forms of protest and nongovernmental movements. While often critical of historical instantiations of civil society, all the authors nonetheless take seriously the potential inherent in civil society, particularly as it comes to influence global politics. They demand, however, an expansion of both the concept and project of civil society in order to make its political opportunities available to all.

Author : Maxine Molyneux
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191069078
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender Justice, Development, and Rights written by Maxine Molyneux and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-11-07 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have seen a shift in the international development agenda in the direction of a greater emphasis on rights and democracy. While this has brought many positive changes in womens rights and political representation, in much of the world these advances were not matched by increases in social justice. Rising income inequalities, coupled with widespread poverty in many countries, have been accompanied by record levels of crime and violence. Meanwhile theglobal shift in the consensus over the role of the state in welfare provision has in many contexts entailed the down-sizing of public services and the re-allocation of service delivery to commercial interests, charitable groups, NGOs and households. Gender Justice, Development, and Rights reflects on this ambivalent record, and on the significance accorded in international development policy to rights and democracy in the post-Cold War era. Key items on the contemporary policy agenda-neo-liberal economic and social policies; democracy; and multiculturalism-are addressed here by leading scholars and regional specialists through theoretical reflections and detailed case studies. Together they constitute a collection which casts contemporaryliberalism in a distinctive light by applying a gender perspective to the analysis of political and policy processes. Case studies from Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East, East-Central Europe, South and South-east Asia contribute a cross-cultural dimension to the analysis of contemporaryliberalism-the dominant value system in the modern world-and how it exists, and is resisted, in developing and post-transition societies.

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Publisher : IDRC
ISBN 13 : 8818988433
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender Justice, Citizenship & Development written by and published by IDRC. This book was released on with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes kapitelvis.

Author : Mala Htun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110828096X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Logics of Gender Justice written by Mala Htun and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When and why do governments promote women's rights? Through comparative analysis of state action in seventy countries from 1975 to 2005, this book shows how different women's rights issues involve different histories, trigger different conflicts, and activate different sets of protagonists. Change on violence against women and workplace equality involves a logic of status politics: feminist movements leverage international norms to contest women's subordination. Family law, abortion, and contraception, which challenge the historical claim of religious groups to regulate kinship and reproduction, conform to a logic of doctrinal politics, which turns on relations between religious groups and the state. Publicly-paid parental leave and child care follow a logic of class politics, in which the strength of Left parties and overall economic conditions are more salient. The book reveals the multiple and complex pathways to gender justice, illuminating the opportunities and obstacles to social change for policymakers, advocates, and others seeking to advance women's rights.

Author : S. Buckley-Zistel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230348610
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender in Transitional Justice written by S. Buckley-Zistel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on original empirical research, this book explores retributive and gender justice, the potentials and limits of agency, and the correlation of transitional justice and social change through case studies of current dynamics in post-violence countries such Rwanda, South Africa, Cambodia, East Timor, Columbia, Chile and Germany.

Author : Denise M. Walsh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139495453
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women’s Rights in Democratizing States written by Denise M. Walsh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers an explanation for why advances in women's rights rarely occur in democratizing states. Drawing on deliberative theory, Denise Walsh argues that the leading institutions in the public sphere are highly gendered, meaning women's ability to shape the content of public debate and put pressure on the state to advance their rights is limited. She tests this claim by measuring the openness and inclusiveness of debate conditions in the public sphere during select time periods in Poland, Chile and South Africa. Through a series of structured, focused comparisons, the book confirms the importance of just debate for securing gender justice. The comparisons also reveal that counter publics in the leading institutions in the public sphere are crucial for expanding debate conditions. The book concludes with an analysis of counter publics and suggests an active role for the state in the public sphere.

Author : Jane S. Jaquette
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822336983
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice written by Jane S. Jaquette and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-27 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVCollection of essays on issues of women and development, attempting to bridge theory and practice in the post-9/11 era to reflect debates in various realms, from the environment, land rights, and identity to information technology, employment, and poverty/div

Author : Anne Marie Goetz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135911061
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governing Women written by Anne Marie Goetz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the proportion of women in national assemblies still barely scrapes 16% on average, the striking outliers – Rwanda with 49% of its assembly female, Argentina with 35%, Liberia and Chile with new women presidents this year – have raised expectations that there is an upward trend in women’s representation from which we may expect big changes in the quality of governance. But getting women into public office is just the first step in the challenge of creating governance and accountability systems that respond to women’s needs and protect their rights. Using case studies from around the world, the essays in this volume consider the conditions for effective connections between women in civil society and women in politics, for the evolution of political party platforms responsive to women’s interests, for local government arrangements that enable women to engage effectively, and for accountability mechanisms that answer to women. The book’s argument is that good governance from a gender perspective requires more than more women in politics. It requires fundamental incentive changes to orient public action and policy to support gender equality.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264639489
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender Equality in Colombia Access to Justice and Politics at the Local Level written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report assesses women’s access to justice and women’s political participation in parliament, local councils and civil society organisations in Colombia. It examines existing legal, political and institutional frameworks in order to better understand successes, challenges and implementation gaps in the government’s pursuit of access to justice and gender equality.

Author : Natalie Persadie
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761858105
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Critical Analysis of the Efficacy of Law as a Tool to Achieve Gender Equality written by Natalie Persadie and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law is often perceived as an instrument that can effect social change. While this might be so, it must be complemented by the necessary financial and human resources to make the law effective. Natalie Persadie explains that, among developing countries, such as Trinidad and Tobago, the achievement of legal advances for women—at either the international or national levels—is particularly difficult where practical measures are not subsequently implemented. This is, perhaps, attributable to a lack of political will. Important issues such as gender equality and domestic violence are not given priority and laws aimed at protecting women and promoting women’s rights are ineffective, scant, or unenforced. Gender justice can only be realized through a multilevel approach from above and, more importantly, from below, as women have the potential to effect real national and international legal and institutional change to ensure gender equality at both levels.