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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... religious and other expressions of identity than of markets. They argue that women may find spaces for empowerment and support for family functioning within community-based politics. In this they reflect criticisms of the North by many ...
Responses to Globalization and Politicized Religions Carolyn M. Elliott. religious politics, ethnic politics and, at the extremes, resurgent nationalism and fundamentalism. But it finds resonance on the left where communitarian visions ...
... religious practices, ideals of women's purity, adulation of motherhood, and other patriarchal ideas. Women are also ... religion, nationalism, and ethnicity, the three most important political expressions of community today. Many argue ...
... religious politics, would likely be occurring even if neoliberalism had not become dominant internationally. These outcomes owe as much or more to advances in transnational communications, the fall of the Soviet Union, and U.S. ...
... religious organizations from evangelical churches to Hezbollah. Further, the NCS Scholars argued that neoliberal governance has had particularly negative consequences for women by encouraging governments to withdraw their commitment to ...
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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