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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... Discourse Leave Out? KAWANGO E. AGOT 16. Age of Consent Law and Moral Order: The Criminalization of Youth Sexual Relationships in Uganda SHANTI A. PARIKH 17. Hijacking Global Feminism: Feminists, the Catholic Church, and the Family ...
... women's rights seems inappropriately individualistic and selfish, or utterly alien, imposed by international discourse emanating from Western culture. These communities may provide identity , solidarity , and spiritual sustenance , but.
... discourse with the imposition of " westernization . " 11 The goal of this volume of essays is to identify possibilities for women's empowerment within this complicated matrix . The contrast between rights - based citizenship and ...
... discourse regarding women. The term was quickly mainstreamed by international development agencies as a way of mobilizing women's well- documented commitment to family well-being for development goals.21 In the course of this transition ...
... discourses , in which women and men in poor communities seek power , empowerment strategies cannot reach their goals . Parpart , Rai , and Staudt call for " historically situated analyses of women's struggles to gain power in a world.
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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