Expanding 'civil society': women and political space in contemporary uganda

Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 84-107

  Tripp, Aili Mari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIVIL SOCIETY; GENDER ROLE; POLITICAL SYSTEM; SOCIAL ORGANISATION; WOMEN'S STATUS;

UGANDA;

EID: 0031737272     PISSN: 03063631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14662049808447768     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Anne Phillips, Engendering Democracy (University Park, Pennsylvania, 1991).
2. Martha Ackelsberg and Mary Lyndon Shanley, 'Privacy, Publicity, and Power: A Feminist Rethinking of the Public-Private Distinction', in N.J. Hirschmann and C. DiStefano (eds.), Revisioning the Political: Feminist Reconstructions of Traditional Concepts in Western Political Theory (Boulder, 1996), 218; Carole Pateman, The Disorder of Women (Stanford, 1989), 118-40.
3. John Keane, 'Introduction', in John Keane (ed.), Civil Society and the State (London and New York, 1988), 20.
4. Pateman, The Disorder of Women, 121.
5. Martha Ackelsberg and Mary Lyndon Shanley, 'Privacy, Publicity, and Power', 228; Susan Okin, Women in Western Political Thought (Princeton, 1979)
6. Pateman, The Disorder of Women, 129.
7. Ibid., 132.
8. Phillips, Engendering Democracy, 95-6, 100.
9. Ibid., 95.
10. Martha Ackelsberg and Mary Lyndon Shanley, 'Privacy, Publicity, and Power', 220; Phillips, Engendering Democracy; 119.
11. Nancy Fraser, Iiistice Inlemiplus: Critical ReectionTon the 'Postsocialist ' Condition (New York and London, 1997), 79.
12. David Musoke, 'Women Petition Museveni', New Vision, 18 May 1996.
13. Aili Mari Tripp, 'Women and Politics in Uganda: The Challenge of Associational Autonomy' (book manuscript, forthcoming).
14. Beatrice Mugambe, 'Are Women Afraid of Seeking Elective Office', Arise (1996), 32-3.
15. Deborah Kasente, 'Women in the Constituent Assembly in Uganda', paper presented at public forum on 'African Women and Governance Seminar and Training Workshop', Entebbe, Uganda, 24-30 July 1994.
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22. Ibid., 281.
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27. See, for example, John F. Clark and David E. Gardinier (eds.), Political Reform in Francophone Africa (Boulder, 1997); Michael Bratton and Nicolas van de Walle, Democratic Experiments in Africa: Regime Transitions in Comparative Research (Cambridge and New York, 1997); Marina Ottaway (ed.), Democracy in Africa: The Hard Road Ahead (Boulder, CO, and London, 1997).
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31. Adrian Leftwich, Redefining Politics (London and New York,1983), 11-12.
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33. Michael W. Foley and Bob Edwards. 'The Paradox of Civil Society', Journal of Democracy, 1, 3 (1996), 39.
34. Examples of such organisations include Action for Women in Development (ACFODE), Forum for Women in Development (FOWODE), Uganda Women's Network (UWONET), The Association of Uganda Women Lawyers (FIDA), National Association of Women's Organisations of Uganda (NAWOU), Pressure Group on Rape and Defilement, and Women's Global Network on Reproductive Rights.
35. Aili Mari Tripp, 'Women and Politics in Uganda: The Challenge 'of Associational Autonomy' (book manuscript, forthcoming).
36. I conducted a 1993 survey of 1,142 randomly selected citizens (80 per cent women) in Kampala, Mbale, Kabale and Luwero.
37. Maxine E. Ankrah, 'Conflict: The Experience of Ugandan Women in Revolution and Reconstruction' (unpublished paper, 1987), 15.
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39. Robert Putnam, Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (Princeton, 1993), 88-9.
40. Foley and Edwards, 'The Paradox of Civil Society', 46-7.
41. Meadwell, in John A. Hall (ed.), Civil Society: Theory, History. Comparison (Cambridge, 1995), 193-4.
42. The name of the association comes from the Lusoga proverb 'Ekilcn-enza omnbi - omulungi takimanyha', which roughly translated means, when someone falls in love with an ugly one, the beautiful one keeps wondering why.
43. Fraser, Justice Inlemiplus, 86.
44. Ibid., 87.