Global Empowerment of Women: Responses to Globalization and Politicized ReligionsCarolyn M. Elliott Routledge, 2007 M12 12 - 416 pages The empowerment of women is a broadly endorsed strategy for solving a host of difficult problems, from child poverty to gender violence to international development. The seventeen international scholars in this multi-disciplinary volume offer thoughtful critiques of the notion of empowerment based on their studies in twenty countries in all regions of the world. The comparative introduction places concepts of empowerment in the context of models of the market and of community, showing how contradictions in these models as they are enacted on the ground provide both spaces and constraints for women. The chapters consider opportunities for women in the context of globalization, resurgent nationalism and politicized religion, cultures of masculinity, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa. They show how initiatives at national or global levels are transformed by local cultures and power structures, and demonstrate the fruitfulness of tensions between universal values of human rights and contextualized understandings. This landmark, multi-disciplinary collection of original studies by distinguished international feminist scholars will be an essential addition to the fields of Political Science, Women’s Studies, Economics, Sociology, International Development, and Environmental Studies. |
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... Africa: What Does the Empowerment Discourse Leave Out? KAWANGO E. AGOT 16. Age of Consent Law and Moral Order: The Criminalization of Youth Sexual Relationships in Uganda SHANTI A. PARIKH 17. Hijacking Global Feminism: Feminists, the ...
... be simultaneously victims, survivors, and agents of change. They may also be perpetrators of violence. SEXUAL. AUTONOMY. AND. GLOBAL. POLITICS: FEMINIST. CRITIQUES. OF. HIV/AIDS INTERVENTIONS IN AFRICA As the HIV/AIDS epidemic accelerates, ...
... African culture”) is an impediment to risk reduction. Such assumptions narrowly define the spread of HIV as a problem ... Africa, Europe, and the Middle East and ten from the United States, two of whom were born and educated abroad. It ...
... Africa and India. Our sisterhood was personal and global. For the possibility of writing this book, I wish to thank the NCS program, the U.S. Department of State, and the Council for International Education of Scholars (CIES). This ...
... Africa, and beyond. The language of human rights draws from the liberal tradition; many feminists support rights-based arguments while rejecting the individualist understanding of agency and citizenship that underlies the rights ...
Contents
Reproductive Technologies | |
Opportunities and Contradictions | |
Women in Saudi Arabia | |
Negotiating with Multiple Patriarchies | |
The Case of | |
Commissions | |
Rape Trauma and Meaning | |
What Have Boys | |
Religion Violence and Womens | |
What Does | |
The Criminalization of Youth | |
Feminists the Catholic Church and | |
Works Cited | |
Law as a Site of Struggle | |
Shariah Activism in Nigeria Under Hudud | |
Gender and EU Accession | |
Contributors | |
Index | |
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