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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... Cultures of violence are based on repression, denial, and manipulation. In the case of violence against women this is particularly acute. Historically women have been blamed, shamed, and silenced about the violence perpetrated against ...
... Cultural Affairs, she was responsible for the Fulbright program, U.S. libraries abroad, and the international visitor program. Alice was revered in the field of international education, for she worked long after her tenure in Washington ...
... cultural practices are drawing from a historically conservative position. Given human history to date, this position is inevitably anti-egalitarian in ways that can only be described as patriarchal.5 Where does feminism fit? Many ...
... cultural integrity.19 Rhoda Reddock in this volume observes the continuing insistence among the Indo-Trinidadian and Afro-Trinidadian communities on preserving separate regimes of personal law in Trinidad and Tobago. She attributes the ...
... cultural , and other resources that provide opportunities and constraints ; and agency or processes through which choices are made and put into effect . Enhancing the capabilities of women is a major focus of scholarship and development ...
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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