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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... Rape, Trauma, and Meaning NICOLA GAVEY 13. Understanding Masculinities, Empowering Women: What Have Boys in Ghana Got to Do with It? AKOSUA ADOMAKO AMPOFO AND JOHN BOATENG 14. The Truth Will Set Us Free: Religion, Violence, and Women's ...
... rape victims. Because the treatment follows an individualistic approach, victims are seen as suffering from trauma akin to posttraumatic stress syndrome. The sociocultural bases of rape are downplayed, masking the need for a collective ...
... rape legislation in Uganda, discussed above, shows how global initiatives have been coopted to strengthen patriarchal controls over adolescents, both male and female. Ewig's study of family planning in Peru in this volume shows how ...
... Rape ( New York : Simon and Schuster , 1976 ) discusses the prevalence of rape . 35. Gioconda Herrara , " States , Work and Social Reproduction through the Lens of Migrant Experience : Ecuadorian Domestic Workers in Madrid " in Bakker ...
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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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