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
... political process that involves both public and private sectors in the determination of social and economic inequalities. While economic governance is generally posited in terms of states and markets, we broaden these concepts to ...
... political, economic, and social contexts surrounding sexual health decisions. For example, condoms might not seem rational for a newly married couple for whom reproduction is an important family obligation and a public symbol of marital ...
... Political Science at the University of Vermont, was an invaluable colleague as technical editor. I also wish to thank Ben Holtzman for his friendly facilitation at Rout-ledge Press, Feminist Studies for permission to reprint the Ewig ...
... political theory that contrasts individualist and communitarian approaches to modernity. These two ideas originate in different philosophical positions, one deriving from the conviction that individuals know their own preferences and ...
Responses to Globalization and Politicized Religions Carolyn M. Elliott. religious politics, ethnic politics and, at the ... political community that guarantees political and civil rights against intrusion by the state. In economic terms ...
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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