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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... victims and supporters but never actors in the movements against war. We propose that that truth commissions be designed to emphasize the empowering aspects of inclusion, recognizing women not only as victims, but also as leaders and ...
... 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 ...
... victims lacking agency, or acting agents lacking rationality. African men, on the other hand, are commonly depicted as hypersexualized, making interventions necessary to “save the African female from the Black male” (Epstein and Kim ...
... victims . Some were victims of abusive men , others of neglectful families , and still others of the rise in poverty and unemployment . This construction of women as victims then collided with the notion of gender - neutral treatment ...
... victims . 31 The end result was an insistence on governing women as “ women . ” RETHINKING NEOLIBERAL GOVERNANCE From the perspective of the Hungarian penal system , it is difficult to sustain the common view of neoliberalism's regional ...
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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