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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... human rights claims of international feminism, scholarship in the textual origins of their faiths enabled the religious communities of women to articulate claims for equality and social justice in the language and doctrines of faith. It ...
... human rights discourse and to notions of equal citizenship that are familiar in western societies. But market ideology fails to recognize work that is outside the market and ignores the unequal ways in which women enter the marketplace ...
... human rights instrument for women, CEDAW, see Shaheen Sardar Ali, “Women's Rights CEDAW and International Human Rights Debates: Toward Empowerment?” in Rethinking Empowerment: Gender and Development in a Global/local World, eds. Jane L ...
... human rights instruments made by Islamic women parliamentarians in their Islamabad Declaration of l995. 18. Maria Floro and Hella Hoppe, “Towards Globalization with a Human Face: Engendering Policy Coherence for Development.” In Social ...
... Human Rights and Sexual Autonomy to Assess and Inform HIV / AIDS Interventions , " New York , April 2005 . 43. Helen Epstein and Julia Kim , “ AIDS and the Power of Women , " New York Review of Books ( February 15 , 2007 ) : 39-41 ...
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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