Feminist Institutionalism in South Africa - Designing for Gender Equality

This book deals with feminist institutionalism through asking the question if gender equality can be designed and applying an analysis related to this question to the South African Commission for Gender Equality.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Can Gender Equality be Designed?, Amanda Gouws
2. The History of the National Gender Machinery in South Africa, Shireen Hassim
3. A Feminist Footprint? The Commission for Gender Equality and the Courts, Cathi Albertyn
4. Structure and Agency in institution-building: Identity Crisis in the Commission for Gender Equality, Sheila Meintjes
5. Reflections of the First Chair of the Commission for Gender Equality, Tenjiwe Mtintso
6. The journey of a gender diva through the institutions: from parliament to the Commission for Gender Equality, Gertrude Fester
7. The Commission for Gender Equality: Leveraging Constitutional Rights to Gender Equality, Janine Hicks
8. Reflections of the first Chair of the Joint Monitoring Commission on the Quality of Life and the Status of Women, Pregs Govender
9. In the Belly of the Beast: Of Structural Problems and Straitjackets in the Commission for Gender Equality, Amanda Gouws
10. Lip Servicing the Budgets; Where's the Money for Gender Equity?, Joy Watson
11. The National Gender Machinery: From an Integrated Set of Structures to a Women's Ministry, Philile Ntuli
12. Changing Visions? A Discursive Exploration of the National Gender Machinery in South Africa, Ubanesia Adams
13. Gaining Power Through the National Gender Machinery, Lisa Vetten
14. The Road to the National Strategic Plan on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide: The National Gender Machinery and the Impact of African Feminist Direct Action and Protest, Simamkele Dlakavu

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Edited by Amanda Gouws

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Amanda Gouws
• Mitarbeit: Amanda Gouws (Herausgeber), Gouws Amanda (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Rowman and Littlefield
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9781538160084
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-6008-4
• Seiten: 346
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; Africa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, Republic of South Africa, Politics & government, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women & girls, Courts;Euality;Gender;Institutionalism;Law