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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... hereafter cited in text as Ali (2002). 6. Jane Jaquette was very helpful in formulating an approach to left communitarianism in the essay. 7. Susan Moller Okin, Justice, Gender and the Family (New York: Basic Books, 1999); Naila Kabeer ...
... hereafter cited in text as Alsop and Heinsohn (2005). 22. Jane L. Parpart, Shirin Rai, and Kathleen A. Staudt, Rethinking Empowerment, Gender and Development in a Global/local World (New York: Rout-ledge, 2002): 3; hereafter cited in ...
... hereafter cited in text as Chant ( 2006 ) . 34. Susan Brownmiller , Against Our Will : Men , Women and Rape ( New York : Simon and Schuster , 1976 ) discusses the prevalence of rape . 35. Gioconda Herrara , " States , Work and Social ...
... hereafter cited in text as Epstein and Kim ( 2007 ) . 44. NCS Scholars , " Final Presentation : Negotiating Citizenship and Diversity : Gender , Nation , Diaspora , ” New York , April 2005 ; hereafter cited in text as NCS Scholars ...
... hereafter cited in text as Rose (1999). 3. Barbara Cruikshank, The Will to Empower (Cornell University Press, 1999). 4. Gil Eyal and Joanna Bockman, “Eastern Europe as a Laboratory of Economic Knowledge: The Transnational Roots of Neo ...
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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