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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... 13. Female Homosexuality in the Middle East Histories and Representations Samar Habib 14. Body, Femininity and Nationalism Girls in the German Youth Movement 1900–1934 Marion E. P. de Ras 15. Global Empowerment of Women.
... Female Muslim Citizen: Law as a Site of Struggle for Inclusion and Exclusion TITIA LOENEN 9. Shari'ah Activism in Nigeria Under Hudud MARGOT BADRAN 10. The Land of Real Men and Real Women: Gender and EU Accession in Three Polish ...
... problems. Female inmates are subjected to penal programs that attempt to break them down in order to rebuild them in the name of empowerment. Scholars reflecting on this mainstreaming have urged that women's empowerment.
... female disobedience. The concept of gender violence, rather than violence against women, expands awareness of gender and violence to include violence against men. Shanti Parikh's work in this volume on statutory rape in Uganda finds ...
... female from the Black male” (Epstein and Kim, 2007). The scholars argue that this formulation ignores the many reasons that women might choose sexual activity. Condoms might not seem rational to a newly married couple for whom ...
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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