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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... population control program. Claiming to be implementing the UN Cairo document on reproductive rights, he enlisted feminists to monitor the Peruvian program, a tactic that hid the program's abuse of poor indigenous women in family ...
... Population Policy . " In Political Interests of Gender , eds . Kathleen Jones and Anna Jonasdottir ( London : Sage Press , 1998 ) . 30. Tanika Sarkar and Urvashi Butalia , eds . , Women and Right - Wing Movements : Indian Experiences ...
... population. The prison is Hungary's only maximum-security facility for women. It sits in the center of town, just off the main square, in an old baroque building. On the outside, there is no indication it is a prison. In fact, the ...
... population. Instead, the prison psychologist spent his time in the two special wards. In a reversal of U.S. women's prisons, which tend to treat all inmates as plagued with some sort of addiction, this Hungarian prison cordoned off ...
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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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