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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... Development, and the Millennium Declaration. We are concerned, however, that the recently adopted Millennium Development Goals (MDG) are a step backward from the earlier United Nations-based initiatives that came out of the conferences ...
... development and gender justice. RESPONSES. TO. VIOLENCE. Violence against women has been widely recognized as a pervasive global problem. It is an enduring impediment to the empowerment of women and, more generally, to social justice and ...
... development, modernizers continue to be largely identified with classical or market liberal views, now called neoliberalism. The conservative position today is associated with religious politics, ethnic politics and, at the extremes ...
... development agencies places commitments made to the Beijing Platform for Action and the UN Millennium Development Goals at risk. Possible links between market reforms and the new conservatisms, especially resurgent nationalisms and ...
... development agencies as a way of mobilizing women's well- documented commitment to family well-being for development goals.21 In the course of this transition, women's empowerment has come to be associated with local grassroots ...
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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