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
... migration as well as ethnic tensions and religious politics, would likely be occurring even if neoliberalism had not become dominant internationally. These outcomes owe as much or more to advances in transnational communications, the ...
... migrants working in South Chinese factories are generally satisfied with their jobs, while those who have returned to the village plan to go back to the work when possible. Migration enabled them to escape patriarchal constraints on ...
... migrants in their rights to education , social insurance , and other services . It places much greater burdens on women ... migration to escape the crisis in agriculture . The empowerment of women in a region that has been systematically ...
... migration with long-term spousal separation, feeding the casual sex industry. The NCS Scholars argue that lack of corporate responsibility to the south has enabled companies to ignore their role in spreading HIV and responsibility to ...
... Migration : Reproducing Gendered Insecurity at the Indonesian Border . " in Bakker and Silvey . 41. Mohammed Younus of the Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his work with micro - credit in Bangladesh . 42. Sexuality ...
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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