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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... labor force, while transnational networks of women in Muslim societies make claims for women's rights and reach out to international feminists. Setting out this binary has, however, provided a useful lens for discerning trade-offs and ...
... labor market should be countered by promoting national legislation , international standards , and union organizing . Workers and communities severely disadvantaged by the new economy should receive support for the transition ...
... labor as exploitation see Linda Lim, “Women's Work in Export Factories: The Politics of a Cause.” In Persistent Inequalities: Women and World Development, ed. Irene Tinker (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990). 17. Women Living ...
... labor and social education. Freedom through Work Walking into the prison, I frequently felt like I was traveling back in time. The prison seemed like a relic of the state-socialist past—or at least of the past that is now remembered ...
... labor. Work was quite literally at the center of prison life. As under state socialism, participation in wage labor was defined as a right and an obligation —inmates were entitled and expected to labor. This focus on work was codified ...
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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