Abstract
State responsiveness to pressures from women's movements in Africa has been
limited. However, where inroads have been made, associational autonomy
from the state and dominant party has proved critical. The women's movement
is one of the most coordinated and active social movements in Uganda,
and one of the most effective women's movements in Africa more generally.
An important part of its success comes from the fact that it is relatively
autonomous, unlike women's movements in earlier periods of Uganda's
post-independence history. The women's movement, in spite of enormous
pressures for cooptation, has taken advantage of the political space afforded
by the semi-authoritarian Museveni government, which has promoted
women's leadership to serve its own ends. Leaders and organisations reflect
varying degrees of autonomy and cooptation. Nevertheless the women's
movement has had a visible impact on policy as a result of its capacity to set
its own far-reaching agenda and freely select its own leaders.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Sociology and Political Science,Geography, Planning and Development
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56 articles.
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