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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... politics provide a better setting for women's well-being? Conservative communitarians elevate and protect women but ... political expressions of community today. Many argue that women in various kinds of restrictive communities strongly ...
... political transitions and in diasporic communities, pressures to conform to traditionally defined gender roles increase and women's bodies become symbols of cultural integrity.19 Rhoda Reddock in this volume observes the continuing ...
... political and economic environment , as well as to cultural assumptions and discourses , in which women and men in poor communities seek power , empowerment strategies cannot reach their goals . Parpart , Rai , and Staudt call for ...
... politics based in community—religious, nationalist, ethnic, or socialist—promise support for women's functioning and address the hidden discrimination embedded in liberal politics? Several NCS Scholars examined various forms of ...
... politics masks inequality and conflict over resources, shifting political discourse away from economics in favor of identity, and often charismatic leadership, over democratic representation. This distinction between markets and ...
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 |