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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... women. Similarly, Titia Loenen in this volume shows how the European Court of Human Rights abandoned its commitment to individual rights when confronted with Muslim teachers wearing headscarves in school. Making no attempt to ...
... rights to education , social insurance , and other services . It places much greater burdens on women than men because women are responsible for family maintenance and children's schooling and because they are vulnerable to gender ...
... rights to cloak a traditional population control program. Claiming to be implementing the UN Cairo document on reproductive rights, he enlisted feminists to monitor the Peruvian program, a tactic that hid the program's abuse of poor ...
... 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 justice in the language and doctrines of faith. It shows ...
... women's membership in communities as well as in liberal democratic politics ... rights discourse and to notions of equal citizenship that are familiar in ... women's lives. We have seen that market- based systems, such as neoliberal ...
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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