WOMEN IN NATIONAL LIBERATION STRUGGLES Week 4 – September 10 1) Rosemary Mpuku Nyaywa – Mama ‘Unip’ Julia ‘Chikamoneka’: The Fearless ‘Mad Africa Girl’ (Readings, p. 91). September 12 1) Asserting Women’s Liberation within National Liberation: The Case of the South African Women’s Movement. (Readings p. 171). Video – “You have Struck A Rock,” Women in the Struggle Against Apartheid. WOMEN’S MOVEMENTS ACTIVISM Week 5 – September 17 Women’s Rights in Botswana – Onnalena Doo Selolwane. (Readings, p.139) September 19 Women Building Peace: The Liberian Women’s Movement (Readings): Women’s Peace Movement in Liberia – Pray the Devil Back to Hell: 3) Wangari Maathai - Greenbelt Movement in Kenya – Maathai (Readings) The Green Belt Movement: The Story of Wangari Maathai, Mia McDonald. First Quiz: September 24. WOMEN AND ELECTORAL SYSTEMS Week 6 – September 24 – First quiz September 26 1) Sheila Meintjes and Mary Simons - Why Electoral Systems Matter to Women. (Readings, p. 287.) 2) “Quotas as a ‘Fast Track’ to Equal Representation for Women,”Dahlerup, Drude and Lenita Freidenvall. 2005. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 7:1. Week 7 - October 1 1) Gisela Geisler - African women in/and Politics: Issues and Reality (Reading Packet) October 3 1) Inonge Mbikusita Lewanika: “Facing the Challenges of Politics”. (Readings, p. 113). 2) Julie Ballington & Richard E. Matland - “Political Parties and Special Measures: Enhancing Women’s Participation in Electoral Processes” WOMEN IN THE POLITICAL SYSTEM Week 7 – October 8 Women’s Political Effectiveness: A Conceptual Framework, Goetz.
(Book, p. 29). October 10 1) Amanda Gouws – Women as Political Participants: The Gender Gap in Voting Behavior. (Readings, p. 277). 2) Introduction: Women in Power in Uganda and South Africa, (Goetz & Hassim. p.1-28). WOMEN AS LEGISLATORS Week 8 – October 15 1) Hassim, Shireen. (2003). “Representation, Participation and Democratic Effectiveness: Feminist Challenges to Representative Democracy in South Africa”, (Goetz p. 81=109) October 17 1) Gender, numbers and substance: Women parliamentarians and the ‘politics of presence’ in KwaZulu-Natal - Suzanne Francis; muse.jhu.edu/journals/transformation/v070/70.francis.pdf 2) The Politics of Engagement: Women Transforming the Policy Process – Domestic Violence Legislation in South Africa ((Goetz, p. 140). Week 9 – October 22 1) Into the Trenches: Women Legislators and their constituencies (Readings - packet) October 24 2) Case Study: Rwanda. Rwanda: Women Hold Up Half the Parliament http://www.idea.int/publications/wip2/upload/Rwanda.pdf 3) Has Senegal's gender parity law for MPs helped women? http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2012/nov/15/senegal-gender-parity-law-mps-women Guidelines on writing term paper Week 10 – October 29 1) “The Effect of Increased Women’s Representation in Parliament: The Case of Rwanda. Devlin, Claire and Robert Elgie: http://pa.oxfordjournals.org/content/61/2/237.full October 31 2) The ‘Lost Clause’: The Campaign to Advance Women’s Property Rights in the Uganda 1998 Land Act. (Goetz, p. 160) WOMEN IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT Second Quiz November 5 Week 11 – November 5 Democratizing Local Government: Problems and Opportunities in the Advancement of Gender Equality in South Africa. Likhapha Mbatha, November 7 2) Gender Equity and Local Democracy in Contemporary Uganda: Addressing the Challenge of Women’s Political Effectiveness in Local Government Josephine Ahikire. WOMEN AND ISLAM