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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... social scientists have avoided venturing out into the messy, and often chaotic, lives of existing institutions. As a ... social empowerment that were drawn from state-socialist ideals of social integration and gender difference. Through ...
... social security. Neoliberal governance also works through intermediary associations, frequently disguised as “non-governmental organizations.” As a result, we now have a slew of “community- groups taking responsibility for everything ...
... social assistance and entitlements as an example of neoliberal governance at work.10 More recently, social scientists have begun to theorize neoliberal penality—that is, how state systems of punishment also reflect elements of ...
... social and their responsibility was to care for them. And they did this through practices that centered on wage labor and social education. Freedom through Work Walking into the prison, I frequently felt like I was traveling back in ...
... social integration—and thus critical to inmates' sense of empowerment upon release. For instance, an issue of central concern to the prison staff was that the social security system failed to take into account the work inmates did while ...
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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Global Empowerment of Women: Responses to Globalization and Politicized ... Carolyn M Elliott No preview available - 2012 |