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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... feminism fit? Many feminists liked socialist communitarianism because it filled all their goals: equality, material improvements to meet people's needs, and community. 6 With Marxism largely off the agenda, the choice is narrowed to ...
... feminism contains many alliances between socialists and Islamists, left and right communitarians. There are rich lines of feminist theory and research analyzing each of these positions. Feminist scholars have pointed out that liberalism ...
... feminists have long used it to emphasize the social constructions of masculinity and femininity in contrast to the ... feminist critique describes a governing code that favors masculinity , not necessarily men , over femininity . Like ...
... feminist politics. Women frequently join movements that appear hegemonic and masculine, supporting nationalism, religious politics, and even war. At the NCS seminar in India, the NCS Scholars were challenged by Indian feminists' reports ...
... feminist discourse about reproductive rights to cloak a traditional population control program. Claiming to be implementing the UN Cairo document on reproductive rights, he enlisted feminists to monitor the Peruvian program, a tactic ...
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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