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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... Transnational Domestication: State Power and Indonesian Migrant Women in Saudi Arabia RACHEL SILVEY 6. Domains of Empowerment: Women in Micro-Credit Groups Negotiating with Multiple Patriarchies LAKSHMI LINGAM PART II Politicized ...
... 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 some ...
... transnational feminist framework for analysis and action. Our research has identified many key sources and sites of women's empowerment. Empowerment has been a critical concept for the international women's movement, underscoring the ...
... transnational communications, the fall of the Soviet Union, and U.S. unilateralism as to economic policies. Finally, where neoliberal economic policy has hastened the spread of market capitalism but not otherwise affected government ...
... transnational networks of women in Muslim societies make claims for women's rights and reach out to international feminists. Setting out this binary has, however, provided a useful lens for discerning trade-offs and tensions which, left ...
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 |