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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... structural impediments to women's empowerment agreed upon by scholars from both the North and the South . As a group , these scholars speak from long experience with research , both field investigations and theoretical formulations ...
... structural change that now appear to have been removed from the mainstream agenda. We focus on understanding what ... structural and gender inequalities. There is also a tension between empowerment as a series of individual choices and ...
... structural limits on this agency, and ignoring the pain and fear that accompany violence, we think it essential to recognize the resiliency and strength of women in the face of widespread violence. Women may be simultaneously victims ...
... 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 States, two of ...
... structural adjustment , emphasizes the gendered impact of neoliberal governance , a process that has shifted many government functions to private institutions and international actors operating by market rules.13 Because the market ...
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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