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
... Under Hudud MARGOT BADRAN 10. The Land of Real Men and Real Women: Gender and EU Accession in Three Polish Weeklies AGNIESZKA GRAFF PART III Gender Violence and Masculinities 11. Sexual Violence Against Women and the Experience of Truth.
... Masculinities, Empowering Women: What Have Boys in Ghana Got to Do with It? AKOSUA ADOMAKO AMPOFO AND JOHN BOATENG 14. The Truth Will Set Us Free: Religion, Violence, and Women's Empowerment in Latin America MONICA MAHER PART IV Sexual ...
... masculinity accompanied Poland's integration into the European Union. Anxieties evoked by the prospect of losing the nation-state only so recently recovered from Soviet domination were expressed through images of feminized.
... masculinity . Gender as a feminist critique describes a governing code that favors masculinity , not necessarily men , over femininity . Like empowerment , it has developed a softer side , in this case incorporation of men's concerns ...
... masculinity and violence are a necessary adjunct to women's empowerment. How do men and women come to accept men inflicting violence on women as legitimate, as in many societies or among subgroups within them? Akosua Ampofo in this ...
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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