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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... Gender, Welfare State and the Market Thomas P Boje and Arnlaug Leira 5. Gender, Economy and Culture in the European Union Simon Duncan and Birgit Pfau Effinger 6. Body, Femininity and Nationalism Girls in the German Youth Movement 1900 ...
... Gender and Neoliberal Punishment in the East and West LYNNE HANEY 2. Biology and Destiny: Women, Work, Birthrates, and Assisted Reproductive Technologies WENDY CHAVKIN 3. Socio-Economic Transformation under Globalization: The Case of ...
... GENDER,. GLOBALIZATION,. AND. GOVERNANCE. Our research deals with governance, understood to be a multifaceted political process that involves both public and private sectors in the determination of social and economic inequalities. While ...
... gender equality. EMPOWERMENT. AND. GENDER. 20 Empowerment was a strategy first proposed internationally in the 1980s by a group of activists from the South to challenge the hegemony of northern feminists in international discourse ...
... gender forces us to examine power relations between men and women in both intimate and social settings , and more recently to study cultures of masculinity . Gender as a feminist critique describes a governing code that favors ...
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 |