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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... for social problems. Female inmates are subjected to penal programs that attempt to break them down in order to rebuild them in the name of empowerment. Scholars reflecting on this mainstreaming have urged that women's empowerment.
... inmates into the social institutions of work and family. Their program of social education, supervised labor, and assistance with personal needs was reminiscent of the state socialist system that has officially been replaced by ...
... inmates presumably have, thus preparing them to be self-reliant upon release.16 In these ways, neoliberal penality differs from rehabilitative corrections: by replacing the “social” with the “self,” it shifts focus from inmates' social ...
... inmates ' " true selves " to their discourses of recovery that focus on freeing inmates from their addictions and vices.17 Somewhat paradoxically , this has led to a convergence in the form and focus of male and female prisons . Once ...
... inmates, half of the prison system's female population. The prison is Hungary's only maximum-security facility for women. It sits in the center of town, just off the main square, in an old baroque building. On the outside, there is no ...
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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