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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... issues - from sexual autonomy , to marriage laws , to war and memory . Their research was located in many different spaces - villages , prisons , health clinics , and the International Criminal Court , among others . The task of the ...
... did not change and is now thriving as a college for women. In the eighties Alice chaired the National Research Council's Committee on Women's Employment and Related Social Issues, and produced Dedication and Acknowledgments.
... Issues, and produced two research initiatives on work and family. Recently on her watch as search committee chair, the Public Broadcasting Corporation appointed its first woman president. All the while, Alice recommended women for ...
... issues from the central concerns of national and international institutions. Julissa Mantilla in this volume traces the long and difficult history of getting post-conflict Truth and Reconciliation Commissions to recognize sexual abuses ...
... issue as she sought to understand the thinking of widows in the Luo community of East Kenya. Upon the death of their husband, they commonly choose to be “inherited” by a male member of the husband's family despite awareness of the risk ...
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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