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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... agencies as a way of mobilizing women's well- documented commitment to family well-being for development goals.21 In the course of this transition, women's empowerment has come to be associated with local grassroots, participatory ...
... agency or processes through which choices are made and put into effect . Enhancing the capabilities of women is a major focus of scholarship and development activity.26 Increasing education and providing micro - credit loans have ...
... agency. Empowerment means a woman, or a group of women, finding the power within themselves to make choices and act ... agencies as indicators of women's empowerment. Empowerment, however, involves not only observable action, but also ...
... agency cannot be considered empowerment, only strategic survival. But if the economic dependency that makes them vulnerable were addressed, the widows she studied would readily define empowerment in terms that do not include cultural ...
... agency for that preserve cultural identity. In these ways the church reinforces the boundaries of domestic workers and as a sponsor of the Virgin processions that preserve cultural identity. In these ways the church reinforces 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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