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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... reported in this volume, found that rural migrants working in South Chinese factories are generally satisfied with their jobs, while those who have returned to the village plan to go back to the work when possible. Migration enabled ...
... reported by the NCS Scholars working on HIV / AIDS in Africa . Because neoliberalism emphasizes individual solutions over community efforts , the focus of the international campaign against HIV is on individuals changing their behavior ...
... reported here emerge from several sources in the NCS program : Papers collected in this volume , summaries of individual research submitted to the program that did not result in papers for the volume but may be published elsewhere , and ...
... reported that the best jobs were allocated on the basis of one's ability to butter up the bureaucratic machine as opposed to skill level or work experience (Tóth, Zentai, and Krizsán, 2005). And the staff often admitted to using work in ...
... it was quite expensive and hard to reach from other areas of the country. As a result, less than 50 percent of inmates reported regular visits (Tóth, Zentai, and Krizsán, 2005). The educators then saw it as their job to facilitate.
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 |