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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... abuse and exploitation in the household. 7 Moreover, the reluctance of classical liberals (now called neoliberals) to expand government means less support for health, education, and the community services women need to fulfill family ...
... Reconciliation Commissions to recognize sexual abuses as within their scope and to understand that gender expertise is needed to deal with it. Maria Floro and Hella Hoppe analyzed contradictions between the UN-led statements on.
... abuse in spaces neglected by the state . In Saudi Arabia , as Rachel Silvey reports in this volume , Indonesian women working as domestic servants are denied protection by the Indonesian government that recruited them , for the ...
... abuse of poor indigenous women in family planning clinics. Ironically, feminist critics of the program eventually found an ally in the Catholic Church that is itself no opponent of patriarchy. Haney, noted above, describes how the ...
... abuse alone. It was the social context that mattered most and formed the basis for their special classification. It was also the social context that the staff highlighted in their treatment. The prison's approach to these special ...
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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Global Empowerment of Women: Responses to Globalization and Politicized ... Carolyn M Elliott No preview available - 2012 |