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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... prison programs to fix U.S. inmates' attitudes and psychological problems.15 We get the introduction of private industries in U.S. prisons, even of private prisons, touted as cost-effective ways to enhance personal responsibility—or, as ...
... prisons . Once upon a time , the U.S. penal system constructed women's and men's problems as vastly different ; it viewed women as having special needs that should be met through the " feminine " treatment of reformatories as opposed to ...
... prison houses over 400 inmates, half of the prison system's female 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 ...
... prisons, the uniforms denoted the inmates' crimes and security risk. Moreover, as in the U.S., I interpreted this color- 24 coding as key way the prison categorized and controlled its inmates. But by the end of the day, the first of ...
... prison's fixation on wage labor. Work was quite literally at the center of prison life. As under state socialism, participation in wage labor was defined as a right and an obligation —inmates were entitled and expected to labor. This ...
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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