No Shortcuts to Power: African Women in Politics and Policy Making

Abstract

* Contents * Preface * 1. Introduction: Women in Power in Uganda and South Africa - Anne Marie Goetz and Shireen Hassim * 2. Women's Political Effectiveness - A Conceptual Framework - Anne Marie Goetz * 3. Representation, participation and democratic effectiveness: Feminist challenges to representative democracy in South Africa - Shireen Hassim * 4. The Problem with Patronage: Constraints on Women's Political Effectiveness in Uganda - Anne Marie Goetz * 5. The Politics of Engagement: Women Transforming the Policy Process - Domestic Violence Legislation in South Africa - Sheila Meintjes * 6. The 'Lost Clause' - The Campaign to Advance Women's Property Rights in the Uganda 1998 Land Act - Sheila Kawamara-Mishambi and Irene Ovonji-Odida * 7. Democratising local government: Problems and opportunities in the advancement of gender equality - Likhapha Mbatha * 8. Gender Equity and Local Democracy in Contemporary Uganda: Addressing the Challenge of Women's Political Effectiveness in Local Government - Josephine Ahikire

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