Women and Politics in Uganda

AILI MARI TRIPP is Wangari Maathai Professor of Political Science and Genderand Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Women's mobilization and social autonomy in comparative African perspective; a foot in the door - historical perspectives on the women's movement in Uganda; background to the National Resistance Movement; the rise of the women's movement under the NRM; preserving organizational autonomy; the practical and the political - the battle for market stalls and power in Kiyembe; reconfiguring the political - the case of Wakitaka health clinic; resisting patronage politics - the case of Kawaala housing project; anatomy of a deception - "something is fishy in Kamuli"; decentralization and women's participation in Uganda; appendix A -survey methods; appendix B - developing Kawaala through self help participation - "the proposed Kawaala land development project" drawn up by Kawaala residents; appendix C - constitution of Ekikwenza Omubi project, 1990.