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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... Households An Atomistic Perspective on European Living Arrangements Michel Verdon 4. 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 ...
... household. 7 Moreover, the reluctance of classical liberals (now called neoliberals) to expand government means less support for health, education, and the community services women need to fulfill family responsibilities. However ...
... household survival strategies, a collective view of the household but not necessarily an indicator of disempowerment.33 Transformational empowerment is usually collective. Changes in consciousness and individual agency may be the ...
... household registration system established during the socialist period to control labor and population movement . The system distinguishes between urban locals and rural migrants in their rights to education , social insurance , and ...
... household power relationships. 8. Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998). 9. Nira Yuval-Davis, “Women, Citizenship and ...
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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