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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... patriarchal structures, undermining their sexual rights and sexual autonomy. NOTES. 1. The group included one scholar each from twenty-one countries of Asia, Latin America, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East and ten from the United ...
... patriarchal practices and fundamentalist politics, the scholars appear more tolerant of religious and other expressions of identity than of markets. They argue that women may find spaces for empowerment and support for family ...
... patriarchal.5 Where does feminism fit? Many feminists liked socialist communitarianism because it filled all their goals: equality, material improvements to meet people's needs, and community. 6 With Marxism largely off the agenda, the ...
... patriarchal ideas. Women are also assumed to be the major transmitters of culture to children. Through their dress and in allegories, women are made into symbols of national difference. 9 Today, an assessment of the meaning of community ...
... patriarchal system in Uganda in which old males have control over young men as well as women. Meanwhile the older men who were the intended targets of the legislation are able to buy their way out of court, leaving young men as the ...
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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