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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... autonomy and those who object to international human rights agendas to protect cultural practices are drawing from a historically conservative position. Given human history to date, this position is inevitably anti-egalitarian in ways ...
... autonomy. They generally accept gender bias and provide rationales for institutionalizing and accepting it. As childbearers, women reproduce group members and, through marriage and production of “pure” or “impure” children, they sustain ...
... autonomy , and well - being ; and to achieve her desired outcomes . " The concept is about a process of transformation , from being disadvantaged by power relations that shape choices and well - being into a position of being able to ...
... autonomous individual or group pursuing their own goals without regard to the claims and needs of others would ... autonomy but contribution to household survival strategies, a collective view of the household but not necessarily ...
... autonomy and increasingly, health. However, many of these women describe themselves as choosing to be inherited ... autonomous choices in highly charged situations where group identity is at stake? Loenen's examination of the headscarf ...
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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