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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... institutional resistance to global trends that have negative effects on women. Further, our research confirms and exemplifies the power of women's collective action. Yet we also recognize problems with the way empowerment has been ...
... institutions and international actors, which operate by market rules and are removed from democratic accountability. The policy of marketization—increasing reliance on markets for producing and distributing goods—is detrimental to poor ...
... institution of excellence in liberal arts education. Alice attended commencements far and wide for family and friends, served ... institutions to make them work for both women and men. As Dean of Wellesley College, she provided critical ...
... institutions and international actors operating by market rules.13 Because the market focuses on work for wages , and caring work is done “ for free , " the so - called economy of care does not enter into national economic accounts and ...
... institutional support for equality norms remains weak. Research by NCS scholars show continuing unawareness, reluctance, or defining away of women's issues from the central concerns of national and international institutions. Julissa ...
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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