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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... poverty , transnational labor exploitation , and control of women's mobility . The world has moved toward greater inequality within and among states as well as among women , even as women are achieving a degree of equality with men in ...
... poverty and achieving some impact on village affairs . But the meager funds brought in by micro - credit programs do little to address the despair brought by drought and indebtedness in a region where small farmers had overinvested in ...
... Poverty . " In Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice : Institutions , Resources and Mobilization , eds . Jane S. Jaquette and Gale Summerfield ( Durham , NC : Duke University Press , 2006 ) ; hereafter cited in text ...
... poverty” through a carceral machine designed to neutralize those rejected by the deregulated service economy.13 In doing so, U.S. penal institutions “contain the disorders produced by mass unemployment, the imposition of precarious ...
... poverty and unemployment . This construction of women as victims then collided with the notion of gender - neutral treatment : " How can you act the same to female and male inmates when the men are often the reason for the women's ...
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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