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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... Activism and Social Change Edited by Maja Mikula 12. The Gender of Democracy Citizenship and Gendered Subjectivity Maro Pantelidou Maloutas 13. Female Homosexuality in the Middle East Histories and Representations Samar Habib 14. Body ...
... Activism in Nigeria Under Hudud MARGOT BADRAN 10. The Land of Real Men and Real Women: Gender and EU Accession in Three Polish Weeklies AGNIESZKA GRAFF PART III Gender Violence and Masculinities 11. Sexual Violence Against Women and the ...
... activists on behalf of women's and gender issues . SCHOLARS ' STATEMENT The implementation of neoliberal policies over the last twenty - five years has resulted in the dominant role of the market , greater openness to international ...
... activism in changing the world. We have discovered numerous ways in which women have transformed their lives. We have also found multiple instances of individual and institutional resistance to global trends that have negative effects ...
... activism, and resistance can be the basis for new forms of democratic 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 ...
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 |