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. |
From inside the book
... group of activists from the South to challenge the hegemony of northern feminists in international discourse regarding women ... groups unable to provide for themselves, so prison populations have soared in countries most influenced by ...
... group of women, finding the power within themselves to make choices and act upon them to achieve results. Achievements—daughters in school, women-owned business, seats on village councils, control of fertility—are used by development ...
... group pursuing their own goals without regard to the claims and needs of others would restrict the notion of ... groups are used for agriculture, an area in which women exercise no decision-making. Women stated that their goal in ...
... group identity is at stake? Loenen's examination of the headscarf ruling in Europe, noted above, found that the ... groups organized around various categories of difference to find greater equality and horizontal comradeship, a form ...
... groups pressing for large-scale transformation in Palestine have found an inhospitable environment, while in Eritrea women feel betrayed by the government's reluctance to provide mechanisms to sustain their new status. International ...
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 |