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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... group identity is at stake, communities tend to react with increased concern about gender roles and seek to tighten control over women. At the same time it is necessary to acknowledge women's agency in each context, even if it is expressed.
... agency, and ignoring the pain and fear that accompany violence, we think it essential to recognize the resiliency and strength of women in the face of widespread violence. Women may be simultaneously victims, survivors, and agents of ...
... tradition; many feminists support rights-based arguments while rejecting the individualist understanding of agency and citizenship that underlies the rights perspective. Deeply critical of neoliberalism, international feminism contains.
... agency requires research in specific contexts with nuanced probing of differences in how agency arises and is expressed . The papers in this volume are the fruits of such endeavors . GLOBAL CONTEXT The contemporary state of the ...
... agencies places commitments made to the Beijing Platform for Action and the UN Millennium Development Goals at risk. Possible links between market reforms and the new conservatisms, especially resurgent nationalisms and fundamentalisms ...
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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