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African women's movements : transforming political landscapes / Aili Mari Tripp [and others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tripp, Aili Mari, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminism--Africa.
- Feminism.
- Women's rights--Africa.
- Women's rights.
- Women--Political activity.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 263 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Women entered the political scene in Africa after the 1990s, claiming more than one third of the parliamentary seats in countries like Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Burundi. Women in Rwanda hold the highest percentage of legislative seats in the world. Women's movements lobbied for constitutional reforms and new legislation to expand women's rights. This book examines the convergence of factors behind these dramatic developments, including the emergence of autonomous women's movements, changes in international and regional norms regarding women's rights and representation, the availability of new resources to advance women's status, and the end of civil conflict. The book focuses on the cases of Cameroon, Uganda, and Mozambique, situating these countries in the broader African context. The authors provide a fascinating analysis of the way in which women are transforming the political landscape in Africa.
- Contents:
- Historic influences on contemporary women's movements
- The rise of the new women's movements
- The challenge of new women's movements
- Women's movements and constitutional and legislative challenges
- In pursuit of equal political representation
- Engendering the state bureaucracy
- Women's movements negotiating peace
- African women's movements and the world.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-249) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-19933-6
- 9786612001550
- 0-511-48069-5
- 0-511-47749-X
- 0-511-47604-3
- 0-511-80035-5
- 0-511-47901-8
- OCLC:
- 417527840
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