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 provisioning and promote women's “self-help.” Women are encouraged to form community associations to perform functions previously assumed by the state, such as the supervision of neighborhood water distribution. Lynne Haney in ...
... social constructions of masculinity and femininity in contrast to the biological determination of sex ( also now contested . ) At its most potent , the concept of gender forces us to examine power relations between men and women in both ...
... social and intellectual currents that inspired the human rights claims of international feminism, scholarship in the textual origins of their faiths enabled the religious communities of women to articulate claims for equality and social ...
... Social Reproduction and Global Transformations: From the Everyday to the Global, eds. Isabella Bakker and Rachel Silvey (NY: Routledge, forthcoming). 16. For a contrary argument against viewing factory labor as exploitation see Linda ...
... social conduct.2 In fact , one distinctive aspect of neoliberalism is the way it combines and coordinates economic , political , and social programs . Along with economic deregulation come calls for the scaling back of state support and ...
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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