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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... participation in liberation and resistance movements empowering. However, post-liberation results have often been contradictory, uneven, and disappointing. In situations of conflict, women and girls are affected in specifically gendered ...
... participation in the rightist party that sponsored the riots. We cannot assume that all women's movements are progressive and that women who have joined hegemonic movements are passive, seduced, or lacking in feminist consciousness. The ...
... participation. 38 Governments may not provide migrant women workers with equal citizenship even within national boundaries. In China, the government recognizes two tiers of 39 citizenship based on the household registration system ...
... participants were able to contribute chapters . A listing of all the participants and their projects is at the end of the book . Except for two chapters , this material is being published for the first time . This collection is ...
... participation and freedom of everyone from women to immigrants to welfare recipients to prisoners to the urban poor.3 It is precisely this promise of empowerment that makes neoliberal forms of governance so effective and resonant . It ...
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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