Changing the Terms of the Discourse

Excerpts from Gender and Governance: A Country Paper

Centre for Women’s Development Studies, 2001

 

The 20th century made significant contributions to the cause of gender equality—(a) by internationalising women’s and other oppressed people’s struggles for justice; (b) by creating institutions which provided the international support and for a for creative interaction between differing perspectives and peoples; and (c) providing an environment for development of international scholarship which sought to demystify the links between the economy, power structures, cultural practices or beliefs and gender relations.

The current discourse on governance raises certain fundamental questions particularly when we seek to examine the relationship between ...