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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... University of Vermont, was an invaluable colleague as technical editor. I also wish to thank Ben Holtzman for his friendly facilitation at Rout-ledge Press, Feminist Studies for permission to reprint the Ewig article and Political ...
... University Press, 1996). 5. For a review of the reservations placed by states on the main human rights instrument ... Press, 1994) has a good chapter on intra-household power relationships. 8. Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink ...
... University Press, 1990). 17. Women Living Under Muslim Laws, “Plan of Action—Senegal 2006.” WLUML Publications, accessed on the web, January 21, 2007. See also Valentine M. Moghadam, Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks ...
... University Press , 1996 ) . 26. Martha Nussbaum , Women and Human Development : The Capabilities Approach ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2000 ) . 27. For an extensive consideration of possible indicators , see Alsop and ...
... University Press, 1999). 4. Gil Eyal and Joanna Bockman, “Eastern Europe as a Laboratory of Economic Knowledge: The Transnational Roots of Neo-Liberalism,” American Journal of Sociology 103, no. 2 (2004): 310. 5. Lynne Haney, Inventing ...
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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