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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... patriarchal constraints on marriage choices or living with an oppressive mother-in-law. Similarly, Gioconda Herrara reported that Ecuadorian immigrants to Spain and the U.S. enjoyed more decision-making authority at home due to the ...
... patriarchal controls over adolescents, both male and female. Ewig's study of family planning in Peru in this volume ... patriarchal values and the instrumental use of patriarchal structures to achieve capitalist goals. The opposition ...
... patriarchal, but two scholars, both in this volume, documented women finding transformative potential in religion. As noted above, Maher shows how a feminist re-reading of the Bible enabled women to reject religious bases for male ...
... patriarchal values and resistance movements tend to drop support for transformative gender relations when faced with nation-building. Finally, community-based politics masks inequality and conflict over resources, shifting political ...
... patriarchal traditions that truly value women ; a role for the state requiring resources that state - run development cannot not produce ; small scale economies that support large - scale societies ; empowered women constantly on the ...
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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Global Empowerment of Women: Responses to Globalization and Politicized ... Carolyn M Elliott No preview available - 2012 |