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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... activists, are products of global communication. They have generated debates about women's roles within societies and led to increasing commitments to women's rights, both nationally and internationally. Global communication has also ...
... activists from the South to challenge the hegemony of northern feminists in international discourse regarding women. The term was quickly mainstreamed by international development agencies as a way of mobilizing women's well- documented ...
... activists in northern Nigeria organized legal defense teams well-equipped in Islamic jurisprudence to argue before higher shari'ah courts for acquittals of two women condemned to death for zina (adultery), winning acquittals in both ...
... Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998). 9. Nira Yuval-Davis, “Women, Citizenship and Difference,” Feminist Review 57 (1997): 4–28. 10. Valentine M. Moghadam, ed ...
... Activism : The Organizing of Migrant Workers in Urban China . " Paper presented at RC - 32 , Research Committee on Women in Society at the ISA World Congress of Sociology , Durban , South Africa , July 2006 . 40. The analysis of the ...
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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