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UNINA9910456810603321 |
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Titolo |
Power, gender and social change in Africa [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Muna Ndulo and Margaret Grieco |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K., : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-33401-8 |
9786612334016 |
1-4438-0628-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (415 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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NduloMuna |
GriecoMargaret <1950-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women in development - Africa |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-376) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. I. Gender mainstreaming, politics, and participation -- pt. II. Activism, scholarship and gender -- pt. III. Health, education and culture -- pt. IV. Legal framework, human rights, conflict, and economic empowerment. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Gender plays a hugely significant and too often under-considered role in predicting how accessible resources such as education, wage-based employment, physical and mental health care, adequate nutrition and housing will be to an individual or community. According to a 2001 World Bank report titled Engendering Development-Through Gender Equality in Rights, Resources, and Voice, enormous disparities exist between men and women in terms of basic rights and the power to determine the future, bot... |
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