Feminist Institutionalism in South Africa
Designing for Gender Equality
Feminist Institutionalism in South Africa
Designing for Gender Equality
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Description
This book deals with feminist institutionalism through asking the key question: can gender equality be designed? It provides a critical analysis of the South African Commission for Gender Equality to assess its successes and failures over a more than 20-year period and provides insight into the design of structures of national gender machineries – how they are designed influences the outcomes for gender equality. The research in this collection sheds light on choices for institutional design of national gender machineries during democratic transitions, the co-optation of institutions, the silences and collusions of those selected to work in the institutions, and the resourcing of institutions and their impact on policy making for women's substantive equality. This book will have a broad appeal for scholars of feminist institutionalism.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
List of Acronyms
Diagrams
Tables
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Feminist Institutionalism: Views from the South, Amanda Gouws
Section One
A History of the Commission for Gender Equality
Chapter 1
Imagining a New World: A Brief History of the South African Feminist Experiment in Institutionalism, Shireen Hassim
Chapter 2
Governance, Governmentality and Power in the Commission on Gender Equality 1997 – 2016, Sheila Meintjes
Chapter 3
In the Belly of the Commission for Gender Equality: Of Structural Problems and Straitjackets, Amanda Gouws
Chapter 4
The Battle Machine, or How to undo a Commission for Gender Equality, Lisa Vetten
Section Two
Successes of the Feminist Imaginary in the Commission for Gender Equality
Chapter 5
A Feminist Footprint? The Commission for Gender Equality and the Courts, Cathi Albertyn
Chapter 6
The Commission for Gender Equality – Leveraging Constitutional Rights to Gender Equality, Janine Hicks
Section Three
The Femin
Product details
| Published | Oct 29 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 346 |
| ISBN | 9798881806750 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Illustrations | 4 b/w photos; 2 tables; |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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