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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... Elliott. Global Empowerment of Women Responses to Globalization and Politicized Religions Edited by Carolyn M. Elliott ROUTLEDGE Routledge Taylor & Francis Group New York London First published 2008 by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York,
... York, NY 10016 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2007. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor ...
... York in May 2005 . The Scholars ' Statement provides a powerful , substantive critique of the structural impediments to women's empowerment agreed upon by scholars from both the North and the South . As a group , these scholars speak ...
... York on April 28, 2005. It was made possible by the NCS program but reflects the views of the NCS Scholars, not the Fulbright Program nor the U.S. State Department. Editorial changes made in this statement for this publication have been ...
... York City-based undergraduates in paid summer internships, offering them vision-expanding opportunities not broadly available in city institutions. Alice observed, “Talent is widely distributed but not widely recognized.” She was ...
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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