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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... neoliberalism, international feminism contains many alliances between socialists and Islamists, left and right ... neoliberals) to expand government means less support for health, education, and the community services women need to ...
... neoliberal governance , a process that has shifted many government functions to private institutions and ... neoliberalism , women pay higher fees than men . Their reproductive capacity is seen as a " risk " to private capital , not a ...
... neoliberalism had not become dominant internationally. These outcomes owe as much or more to advances in transnational communications, the fall of the Soviet Union, and U.S. unilateralism as to economic policies. Finally, where neoliberal ...
... neoliberalism's focus on market individualism has destroyed any notion of the common good, other than the market, in ... neoliberal governance has had particularly negative consequences for women by encouraging governments to withdraw ...
... neoliberal states. These states have responded to economic marginalization by incarcerating social groups unable to provide for themselves, so prison populations have soared in countries most influenced by neoliberal governance. Inside ...
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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