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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Responses to Globalization and Politicized Religions Carolyn M. Elliott. Scholars reflecting on this mainstreaming ... response to the norms and institutions of male domination . It useful to discern three closely related dimensions of ...
Responses to Globalization and Politicized Religions Carolyn M. Elliott. The concept of gender has structural and collective ... response to gendered inequalities in power that make rape a common occurrence. 34 Studies of links between ...
Responses to Globalization and Politicized Religions Carolyn M. Elliott. MARKETS. AND. COMMUNITIES: NCS. RESEARCH. Market capitalism, accentuated by globalization, has provided women workers with choices, resources, and elevated status at ...
Responses to Globalization and Politicized Religions Carolyn M. Elliott. used by East Europeans to talk about the transition is framed as the victory of neoliberal narratives of the past and future.6 Yet just as neoliberalism is more ...
Responses to Globalization and Politicized Religions Carolyn M. Elliott. invest in their futures? Again, the goal is ... response to social insecurity, neo-liberal penality implies a particular approach to the socially insecure once they ...
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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