Gender-responsive governance in Sierra Leone : the transitions and logic of inequality / John Idriss Lahai.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lahai, John Idriss, author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Routledge inequality studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Sierra Leone--Social conditions.

Women.

Women--Political activity--Sierra Leone.

Equality--Sierra Leone.

Equality.

Sex discrimination against women--Sierra Leone.

Sex discrimination against women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2023.

Biography/History:

John Idriss Lahai is a scholar in applied international development, gender and women studies, transitional justice and human rights, multi-level governance in fragile states, refugee and migration studies, human geography, regional planning, and peace and conflict studies. He is the author of over a dozen books published by Routledge and Palgrave Macmillan, among other internationally recognized academic publishing houses. He is currently an affiliate of the School of Geography and Sustainable Communities and The Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space (ACCESS) of the University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. Lahai sits on the advisory board of Rowman & Littlefield's newly constituted book series "Migration, Displacement, and Development." He has consulted/worked for several governments and international agencies (working on mitigating state fragility in the Global South).

Contents:

Part One. Theories, Concepts and Issues

Chapter 1: Theorizing Gender-responsive Governance, Women's Agency and Empowerment, and the Logic of (In)quality and Transitions to Equality

Part Two. The Logic of Inequality in The Bounded Spaces of Sexuality, Violence, and Discrimination

Chapter 2: The Histories and Boundaries of State-Capture: Sexuality, Power, and Belonging

Chapter 3: Locating Inequality in the Formal and Informal Economic Sector

Chapter 4: How Society created an Education Sector that Propagated Inequality

Chapter 5: Politics, Electoral Violence and Gender Inequality

Chapter 6: Then Came the Era of A Civil War and its Aftermath: Women's Lives in War and Peace

Part Three. The Logic and Transitions to Gender-responsive Governance, Equality and Empowerment

Chapter 7: Feminizing the Quasi-Institutional Interventions to end Sexual Violence

Chapter 8: Women, The State and The Rise of a Gender-Responsive Knowledge-Economy

Chapter 9: 'Let's Quantify the Contributions of Women:' Costing of Equality via Gender-Responsive Budgeting

Chapter 10: Creating the 'Local State' and Expanding the Decentralised Space for Women's Grassroots Political Participation.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781000901849

100090184X

9781003384083

1003384080

9781000901887

1000901882

Publisher Number:

99994295632

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