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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... of Women Responses to Globalization and Politicized Religions Edited by Carolyn M. Elliott ROUTLEDGE Routledge Research in Gender and Society Global Empowerment of Women Routledge Research in Gender and Society. Front Cover.
Responses to Globalization and Politicized Religions Carolyn M. Elliott. Global Empowerment of Women Routledge Research in Gender and Society 1. Economics of the.
... Society. 1. Economics of the Family and Family Policies Edited by Inga Persson and Christina Jonung 2. Women's Work and Wages Edited by Inga Persson and Christina Jonung 3. Rethinking Households An Atomistic Perspective on European ...
... society from medieval constraints on political and personal freedom, and conservatives wishing to preserve the stability of local communities.2 Concerns for community in the face of industrialization led also to a left strand of ...
... societies and in international norms.8 Given the problems that markets can generate—individualism, exclusion, and inequality—does a community-based politics provide a better setting for women's well-being? Conservative communitarians ...
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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