Conflicting policy narratives: Moving beyond culture in identifying barriers to gender policy in South Africa:

摘要: This paper explores barriers to gender policy implementation arising from the narratives framing as a issue. Through examining influence of on practitioners, it challenges those who represent failures result unsupportive cultural contexts. The draws Fraser’s (1995, 2005; Fraser and Honneth, 2003) conceptualisation recognition redistribution highlight tensions between three different narratives: (1) instrumental for development; (2) women’s rights empowerment; (3) relations power requiring personal transformation. Interviews with 32 practitioners in 26 South African non-governmental organisations observations meetings these show how lead unhelpful conflicts practitioners. These inhibit both uptake recommendations collaboration ways that undermine efforts address inequalities context.