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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... structural constraints embedded in global and national institutions that limit the prospects for empowerment. Parpart, Rai, and Staudt suggests it “encourages a rather romantic equation between empowerment, inclusion, and voice that ...
... structural. Embracing a definition of empowerment, however, that rests on the notion of an autonomous individual or group pursuing their own goals without regard to the claims and needs of others would restrict the notion of empowerment ...
... structures and may provide a basis for collective action. Thus Chavkin argues, as noted above, that unawareness of the gendered structure of career-building results in the failure of European policy to deal with the demographic crisis ...
... structures. Parikh's study of statutory rape legislation in Uganda, discussed above, shows how global initiatives have been coopted to strengthen patriarchal controls over adolescents, both male and female. Ewig's study of family ...
... structure and boundaries enabled groups organized around various categories of difference to find greater equality and horizontal comradeship, a form of left communitarianism. Similarly, during the Eritrean War of Independence, women ...
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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