African women in politics and policy making
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Goetz, Anne Marie > (ed.)
- Creator
- Hassim, Shireen > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Ahikire, Josephine
- Publish Year
- 2003
- Shelfmark
- B5059 - B
- Thesaurus
- democratie, macht, politiek, landbezit, huiselijk geweld, Uganda, Zuid-Afrika, bundel
- Description
- In this collection the authors examine the question whether democratization in Southern Africa has resolved the political participation and policy impact of women. Here this question is explored in the context of two countries, South Africa and Uganda, which in this regard have accomplished much more than most (including the Western democracies). In the volume is also examined two litmus-test pieces of legislation - around land in Uganda and gender violence in South Africa. What emerges is that the political routes to increased female participation vary and the solidity of the gains made depends much on the strength of the gender-equity lobby in society at large.