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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... Practice : Institutions , Resources and Mobilization , eds . Jane S. Jaquette and Gale Summerfield ( Durham , NC : Duke University Press , 2006 ) ; hereafter cited in text as Chant ( 2006 ) . 34. Susan Brownmiller , Against Our Will ...
... practices at work in the Hungarian penal system, revealing how they emphasized a form of rehabilitation that diverged from neoliberal punishment models and promises of empowerment. Hungarian prison officials countered these models and ...
... practices operate increasingly through private institutions and actors—as evidenced in the rise of for-profit welfare agencies, private or “faith- based” prisons, school “choice,” and the privatization of social security. Neoliberal ...
... practices of neoliberal empowerment pervade female penal institutions - from their use of " therapeutic communities " that emphasize inmates ' " true selves " to their discourses of recovery that focus on freeing inmates from their ...
... practices. This is a much more difficult test as, at the institutional level, neoliberal punishment models must be filtered through the lives of real people and contend with their interests and imaginations. Do the concrete practices 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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