Social Movements and Democracy in Africa: The Impact of Women's Struggle for Equal Rights in BotswanaThis book examines social movements in Africa, analyzing how they emerge and how they may impact public policy, the legal and political situation, and the society by focusing on the following question: How do women's political and legal rights get extended and institutionalized in a patriarchal democratic society? |
Contents
1 Situating a Social Movement in Botswana | 1 |
2 Human Rights and Social Movements in Africa | 13 |
3 Social Movements and the State | 35 |
4 Women and the State in Botswana | 49 |
5 Emang Basadi in the Policy Process | 69 |
6 The Impact of Emang Basadi | 95 |
Social Movements in Africa | 129 |
Appendix A | 145 |
Appendix F | 157 |
Appendix G | 161 |
Appendix H | 165 |
Appendix I | 167 |
Appendix J | 171 |
Appendix K | 189 |
Notes | 193 |
References | 195 |
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1st Meeting 2nd Meeting 3rd Meeting 3rd Parliament 3rd Session 4th Session 7th Parliament Act CAP adopted Africa agenda responsiveness agenda-setting agenda-setting theory agitation Beijing bills Botswana Democratic Party Botswana National Front Botswana society campaign candidates capacity CEDAW challenge Citizenship Act civil society collective action conference Constitution courts cultural decision-making demands democracy democratic discrimination against women discriminatory laws Doug McAdam effective elections Emang Basadi emergence empowerment Gaborone gender groups human rights impact implement Kgotla Kriesi liberal democracy major male Meeting Hansard ment movement in Botswana NSMs opposition party organizations participation percent political opportunity structure political parties post-material protest Quett Masire related to women resource mobilization role ruling party saliency Selolwane social move social movements status strategies strong success survey Tarrow theory tion Tswana Unity Dow vote weak women in Botswana women’s issues women’s movement women's rights