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Feminist Institutionalism in South Africa

Feminist Institutionalism in South Africa
Author: Amanda Gouws
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2022-10-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1538160099

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This book deals with feminist institutionalism through asking the key question: can gender equality be designed? It provides a critical analysis of the South African Commission for Gender Equality to assess its successes and failures over a more than 20-year period and provides insight into the design of structures of national gender machineries – how they are designed influences the outcomes for gender equality. The research in this collection sheds light on choices for institutional design of national gender machineries during democratic transitions, the co-optation of institutions, the silences and collusions of those selected to work in the institutions, and the resourcing of institutions and their impact on policy making for women's substantive equality. This book will have a broad appeal for scholars of feminist institutionalism.


Gendered Institutions and Women’s Political Representation in Africa

Gendered Institutions and Women’s Political Representation in Africa
Author: Diana Højlund Madsen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2020-12-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1913441199

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During the course of the past three decades efforts of democratisation and institutional reforms have characterised the African continent, including demands for gender equality and women's political representation. As a result, some countries have introduced affirmative action measures, either in the aftermath of conflicts or as part of broader constitutional reforms, whereas others are falling behind this fast track to women's political representation. Utilising a range of case studies spanning both the success cases and the less successful cases from different regions, this work examines the uneven developments on the continent. By mapping, analysing and comparing women's political representation in different African contexts, this book sheds light on the formal and informal institutions and the interplay between these that are influencing women's political representation and can explain the development on women's political representation across the continent and present perspectives on an 'African feminist institutionalism'.


(Un)thinking Citizenship

(Un)thinking Citizenship
Author: Amanda Gouws
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2017-03-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351963252

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The study of citizenship in the context of South Africa implicitly challenges the rights-based democracy in South Africa, while literature regarding women and citizenship has greatly contributed to a new understanding of citizenship. Locally, many global processes are reproduced in the discourse of rights-claiming, issues of institutional representation, bodily integrity in the face of violence, and care in the face of a lack of care. This volume takes the debate of citizenship in South Africa in a more theoretical and empirical direction while engaging with knowledge produced elsewhere in the world. As part of the Gender in a Local/Global World series, it investigates the making of gendered citizenship, institutionalization of gender politics, the state of gendered policy making, local citizenship, rights, the women's movement, gendered violence, as well as citizenship and the body.


Gender in Southern Africa

Gender in Southern Africa
Author: Ruth E. Meena
Publisher: Sapes Books
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1992
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

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This book is a result of concerns and views expressed by participants at a Gender Planning Workshop which was organised by the SAPES Gender Project in July 1991. The contributions in this collection are essentially posing issues and questions which have not been handled by mainstream scholarship. The authors are challenging women and men to liberate mainstream scholarship from its male biases which limit our understanding of socio-economic and political processes which have contributed to the underdevelopment of this region.


Gender Equality and Economic Growth in South Africa

Gender Equality and Economic Growth in South Africa
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
Genre: Electronic dissertations
ISBN:

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Gender equality -- Economic growth -- South Africa -- Economic policy -- Feminist institutional framework


Women and the Remaking of Politics in Southern Africa

Women and the Remaking of Politics in Southern Africa
Author: Gisela G. Geisler
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2004
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789171065155

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This study looks at womens stuggle in Southern Africa where the last ten years have seen the most pervasive success stories on the African continent.Tracing the history of womens involvement in anti-colonial struggles and against apartheid, the book analyses post-colonial outcomes and examines the strategies employed by womens movements to gain a foothold in politics.


Ringing Up the Changes

Ringing Up the Changes
Author: Colleen Lowe Morna
Publisher:
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2004
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

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Women Journalists in South Africa

Women Journalists in South Africa
Author: Glenda Daniels
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2022-10-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3031126963

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This edited collection examines women journalists’ experiences and obstacles in South Africa’s (SA) democracy. They exercise power, and add a vital diversity, but they are routinely harassed in the online social media space of big tech companies such as Twitter and Facebook by populist and corrupt politicians and their supporters. Using SA as the case study, this book examines attempts to curb women journalists’ freedom combining theory and first-hand accounts. The target audience for the book includes scholars of political philosophy, gender, media, communications, NGOs, media freedom activists and journalists.


Gender and Informal Institutions

Gender and Informal Institutions
Author: Georgina Waylen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2017-05-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1786600048

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The book takes up the challenges of gender equality in informal institutions though a feminist institutionalist lens.


Women's Activism in South Africa

Women's Activism in South Africa
Author: Hannah Evelyn Britton
Publisher: University of Kwazulu Natal Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN:

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Women's Activism in South Africa provides the most comprehensive collection of women's experiences within civil society since the 1994 transition. This book captures South African women's stories of collective activism and social change at a crucial point for the future of democracy in the country, if not the continent. Pulling together the voices of activists and scholars, South Africa's path to democracy and the assurance of gender rights emerge as a complex journey of both successes and challenges. The collection elucidates a new form of pragmatic feminism, building upon the elasticity between the state and civil society. What the cases demonstrate is that while the state itself may not be a panacea, it still represents a key source of power and the primary locus of vital resources, including the rights of citizenship, access to basic needs, and the promise of protection from gender-based violence - all central to women's particular needs in South Africa.