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This book deals with feminist institutionalism through asking the key question: can gender equality can 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, 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
  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

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      Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/11/2022
      ISBN13: 9781538160084, 978-1538160084
      ISBN10: 1538160080

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This book deals with feminist institutionalism through asking the key question: can gender equality can 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, 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
      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

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