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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... male model of career by linking maternity benefit levels to salaries. This provides incentives to women to wait until they have reached high salary levels, at which point infertility is one of several increased risks. Nicola Gavey in ...
... male and female. Ewig's study of family planning in Peru in this volume shows how President Alberto Fujimori used global feminist discourse about reproductive rights to cloak a traditional population control program. Claiming to be ...
... male may preserve their reputation and provide economic support but at the cost of autonomy and increasingly, health. However, many of these women describe themselves as choosing to be inherited, suggesting that choice has little ...
... male privilege and resist the growing feminicide in Honduras. Margot Badran reports in this volume how Muslim women activists in northern Nigeria organized legal defense teams well-equipped in Islamic jurisprudence to argue before ...
... male counterparts . Or perhaps it is because many find it distasteful to punish and condemn women . Whatever the reason , the discourses and practices of neoliberal empowerment pervade female penal institutions - from their use of ...
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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