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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... Africa . Because neoliberalism emphasizes individual solutions over community efforts , the focus of the international campaign against HIV is on individuals changing their behavior . This ignores women's limited control over their ...
... Africa. Whereas young people formerly learned intertwined lessons about sexual risk and pleasure through a specific person in the kinship system, they are now inundated by messages of rampant sexuality. Global corporations working in ...
... African masculinities. African women, they found, are generally portrayed as voiceless victims lacking agency, or acting agents lacking rationality. African men, on the other hand, are commonly depicted as hypersexualized, making ...
... Africa , July 2006 . 40. The analysis of the terminal is in Rachel Silvey , " Managing Migration : Reproducing Gendered Insecurity at the Indonesian Border . " in Bakker and Silvey . 41. Mohammed Younus of the Grameen Bank won the Nobel ...
... African American women were never held up to these feminine norms. Instead, they were masculinized and subjected to harsh, punitive treatment. For more on the racial dynamics of this system, see: Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete? (New ...
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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