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. |
From inside the book
... Marriage Acts of Trinidad and Tobago RHODA REDDOCK 8. Constructing the 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 ...
... marriage laws , to war and memory . Their research was located in many different spaces - villages , prisons , health clinics , and the International Criminal Court , among others . The task of the seminars was to draw on this research ...
... married couple for whom reproduction is an important family obligation and a public symbol of marital happiness. HIV/AIDS campaigns are so focused on risk that they do not adequately address desire or other emotions that motivate sexual ...
... marriage and production of “pure” or “impure” children, they sustain or violate group boundaries. Controlling reproduction means controlling women's sexuality, leading to constraints on their mobility. These restrictions are legitimated ...
... marriage laws to the effects of competition among male elites at the end of colonialism. Apprehensive about their power in the new regime, elders of the various communities used marriage law to reassert ethnicity-based controls over ...
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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