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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... males and females have equal control over their sexual health decisions, that individuals act autonomously and according to biomedical constructions of rationality, and that culture (usually read as “African culture”) is an impediment ...
... male elites at the end of colonialism. Apprehensive about their power in the new regime, elders of the various communities used marriage law to reassert ethnicity-based controls over women. The impact of globalization on national ...
... males and oversized dominant women. Similarly, Titia Loenen in this volume shows how the European Court of Human Rights abandoned its commitment to individual rights when confronted with Muslim teachers wearing headscarves in school ...
... male domination . It useful to discern three closely related dimensions of empowerment : individual capabilities such as health , education , knowledge , self - confidence , vision , etc .; institutional , cultural , and other resources ...
... male member of the husband's family despite awareness of the risk of HIV/AIDS. She argues that when basic survival and fulfilling responsibilities for children are at stake, the widows understand empowerment as access to means of ...
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 |