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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... Muslim Citizen: Law as a Site of Struggle for Inclusion and Exclusion TITIA LOENEN 9. Shari'ah Activism in Nigeria Under Hudud MARGOT BADRAN 10. The Land of Real Men and Real Women: Gender and EU Accession in Three Polish Weeklies ...
... Muslim Laws (WLUML), a twenty-year-old solidarity network of mostly Muslim women from seventy countries. Calling for equality, gender justice, and women's rights, and identifying themselves as human rights activists, Women Living Under ...
... Muslim teachers wearing headscarves in school. Making no attempt to investigate the meaning of headscarves to the individuals involved, the Court adopted an essentialized stance against what they thought to be religiously prescribed ...
... Muslim women in the Gujarat riots of 2002. In interviews, Hindu women declared themselves empowered by participation in the rightist party that sponsored the riots. We cannot assume that all women's movements are progressive and that ...
... Muslim women activists in northern Nigeria organized legal defense teams well-equipped in Islamic jurisprudence to argue before higher shari'ah courts for acquittals of two women condemned to death for zina (adultery), winning ...
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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