Gender And Power In Sierra Leone

Author : L. Day
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230337929
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and Power in Sierra Leone written by L. Day and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the gendered political authority in Sierra Leone, a relatively unknown topic, and looks at the part it plays in women's history, political history, political transformation in Africa, and global women's political leadership.

Author : Josephine Beoku-Betts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786996952
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War, Women and Post-conflict Empowerment written by Josephine Beoku-Betts and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1991-2002 civil conflict ended in Sierra Leone, the country has failed to translate the accomplishments of women's involvement in bringing the war to an end into meaningful political empowerment. This is in marked contrast to other post-conflict countries, which have increased the political participation of women in elected and appointed office, increased the representation of women in leadership positions, and enacted constitutional reforms promoting women's rights. Written by Sierra Leonean and Africanist scholars and experts from a broad range of disciplines, this unique volume analyses the historical and contextual factors influencing women's political, economic and social development in the country. In drawing on a diverse array of case studies – from health to education, refugees to international donors – the contradictions, successes and challenges of women's lives in a post-conflict environment are revealed, making this an essential book for anyone involved in women and development.

Author : John Idriss Lahai
Publisher : Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781906165772
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender in Practice written by John Idriss Lahai and published by Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sierra Leone, the dominant epistemological frames of the political and social history of the country and the post-colonial understanding of the place of men and women, are conditioned on the inter-subjective discourses of power, place, identities and belongingness. These have exposed the gendered uncertainties in people's lives.

Author : John Idriss Lahai
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100090184X
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender-Responsive Governance in Sierra Leone written by John Idriss Lahai and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates gender equality and women’s empowerment in Sierra Leone, focusing especially on women’s interactions with the state and its development partners. In particular, it highlights women’s increasing agency in acquiring knowledge, diffusing power, engaging in grassroots politics, and compelling the government to adopt more gender-responsive policies. Exploiting extensive fieldwork and original multidisciplinary research methods (including econometric and statistical models), the book first sets out the history and impact of inequality in Sierra Leone, and then goes on to shed light on the constructive and collaborative engagement of women and the state on a variety of local and external strategies for promoting gender equality. Drawing throughout on insights from across gender studies, sociology, anthropology, economics, and political science, the book highlights how women are succeeding in transforming marginality into agency in order to build a platform for influencing change. By qualifying and quantifying the challenges of gender inequality in Sierra Leone, and the progress that is being made, this book provides important insights that will be relevant to other fragile, post-conflict states within Africa. The book will be of interest to students and researchers studying women and gender studies, African studies, economics, international development, sociology, and political science and international relations. It will also deepen policymakers’ and practitioners’ understanding of women’s diverse trajectories and experiences, and how the typology of government affects the patterns of inequality and equality.

Author : Aili Mari Tripp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107115574
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Power in Post-Conflict Africa written by Aili Mari Tripp and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains why women's rights are improving more rapidly in post-conflict countries in Africa than elsewhere on the continent.

Author : Aili Mari Tripp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316432491
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Power in Postconflict Africa written by Aili Mari Tripp and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explains an unexpected consequence of the decrease in conflict in Africa after the 1990s. Analysis of cross-national data and in-depth comparisons of case studies of Uganda, Liberia and Angola show that post-conflict countries have significantly higher rates of women's political representation in legislatures and government compared with countries that have not undergone major conflict. They have also passed more legislative reforms and made more constitutional changes relating to women's rights. The study explains how and why these patterns emerged, tying these outcomes to the conjuncture of the rise of women's movements, changes in international women's rights norms and, most importantly, gender disruptions that occur during war. This book will help scholars, students, women's rights activists, international donors, policy makers, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and others better understand some of the circumstances that are most conducive to women's rights reform today and why.

Author : Mariz Tadros
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783600543
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in Politics written by Mariz Tadros and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women the world over are being prevented from engaging in politics. Women's political leadership of any sort is a rarity and a career in politics rarer still. We have, however, begun to understand what it takes to create an enabling environment for women's political participation. In this exciting and pioneering collection, writers from Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East are brought together for the first time to talk explicitly about women's participation in the political scene across the global South. Answering such questions as how women can get political apprenticeship opportunities, how these opportunities translate into the pursuit of a political career, and how these pursuits then influence the kind of political platform women advocate once in power, Women in Politics is essential reading for anyone interested in what it means to engage politically.

Author : Laura J. Shepherd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190699434
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender, UN Peacebuilding, and the Politics of Space written by Laura J. Shepherd and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (UNPBC) was established in December 2005 to develop outlines of best practice in post-conflict reconstruction, and to secure the political and material resources necessary to assist states in transition from conflict to peacetime. Currently, the organization is involved in reconstruction and peacebuilding activities in six countries. Yet, a 2010 review by permanent representatives to the United Nations found that the hopes of the UN peacebuilding architecture "despite committed and dedicated efforts...ha[d] yet to be realized." Two of these hopes relate to gender and power, specifically that peacebuilding efforts integrate a "gender perspective" and that the Commission consult with civil society, NGOs, and women's organizations. This book is the first to offer an extensive and dedicated analysis of the activities of the UN Peacebuilding Commission with regard to both gender politics, broadly conceived, and the gendered dynamics of civil society participation in peacebuilding activities. Laura J. Shepherd draws upon original fieldwork that she conducted at the UN to argue that the gendered and spatial politics of peacebuilding not only feminizes civil society organizations, but also perpetuates hierarchies that privilege the international over the domestic realms. The book argues that the dominant representations of women, gender, and civil society in UN peacebuilding discourse produce spatial hierarchies that paradoxically undermine the contemporary emphasis on "bottom-up" governance of peacebuilding activities.

Author : F. Steady
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137010398
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Leadership in West Africa written by F. Steady and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines women and leadership in West Africa, with a special focus on Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone—the Mano River Union countries. These countries have traditions of indigenous female leadership in executive positions in varying degrees, and all three have a tradition of organizations that form important power bases for women.

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.