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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... Women, Work, Birthrates, and Assisted Reproductive Technologies WENDY CHAVKIN 3. Socio-Economic Transformation under Globalization: The Case of ... Violence and Masculinities 11. Sexual Violence Against Women and the Experience of Truth.
Responses to Globalization and Politicized Religions Carolyn M. Elliott. 11. Sexual Violence Against Women and the Experience of Truth Commissions JULISSA MANTILLA FALCON 12. Rape, Trauma, and Meaning NICOLA GAVEY 13. Understanding ...
... violence against women , the feminization of poverty , 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 ...
... women and, more generally, to social justice and peace. Cultures of violence are based on repression, denial, and manipulation. In the case of violence against women this is particularly acute. Historically women have been blamed ...
... women. Although not many justify violence, most consider disciplining and instilling fear in their wives an appropriate way to deal with female disobedience. The concept of gender violence, rather than violence against women, expands ...
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 |