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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... Human Rights, the Beijing Platform for Action, the World Summit on Social Development, and the Millennium Declaration. We are concerned, however, that the recently adopted Millennium Development Goals (MDG) are a step backward from the ...
... rights and a preference for limited government. Citizenship is conceived as equality among members in a political community that guarantees political and civil rights against intrusion by the state. In economic terms, this translates ...
... rights, and identifying themselves as human rights activists, Women Living Under Muslim Laws works within the communitarian model of religious-based society.17 But institutional support for equality norms remains weak. Research by NCS ...
... human rights/ social development agencies places commitments made to the Beijing Platform for Action and the UN Millennium Development Goals at risk. Possible links between market reforms and the new conservatisms, especially resurgent ...
... Human Rights abandoned its commitment to individual rights when confronted with Muslim teachers wearing headscarves in school. Making no attempt to investigate the meaning of headscarves to the individuals involved, the Court adopted an ...
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 |