Global empowerment of women : responses to globalization and politicized religions / edited by Carolyn M. Elliott.

"First published in 2008. First issued in paperback ed 2012".

Includes bibliographical references (pages [349]-376) and index.

Introduction: Markets, Communities, and Empowerment / Carolyn M. Elliott -- Pt. I. Globalization and Neoliberal Governance -- 1. Competing Empowerments: Gender and Neoliberal Punishment in the East and West / Lynne Haney -- 2. Biology and Destiny: Women, Work, Birthrates, and Assisted Reproductive Technologies / Wendy Chavkin -- 3. Socio-Economic Transformation under Globalization: The Case of Nepalese Women / Meena Acharya -- 4. Empowerment of Women Migrant Factory Workers in South China: Opportunities and Contradictions / Esther Ngan-Ling Chow -- 5. Transnational Domestication: State Power and Indonesian Migrant Women in Saudi Arabia / Rachel Silvey -- 6. Domains of Empowerment: Women in Micro-Credit Groups Negotiating with Multiple Patriarchies / Lakshmi Lingam -- Pt. II. Politicized Religions and Citizenship -- 7. Gender, Nation and the Dilemmas of Citizenship: The Case of the Marriage Acts of Trinidad and Tobago / Rhoda Reddock -- 8. Constructing the Female Muslim Citizen: Law as a Site of Struggle for Inclusion and Exclusion / Titia Loenen -- 9. Shari'ah Activism in Nigeria Under Hudud / Margot Badran -- 10. The Land of Real Men and Real Women: Gender and EU Accession in Three Polish Weeklies / Agnieszka Graff -- Pt. III. Gender Violence and Masculinities -- 11. Sexual Violence Against Women and the Experience of Truth Commissions / Julissa Mantilla Falcon -- 12. Rape, Trauma, and Meaning / Nicola Gavey -- 13. Understanding Masculinities, Empowering Women: What Have Boys in Ghana Got to Do with It? / Akosua Adomako Ampofo and John Boateng -- 14. The Truth Will Set Us Free: Religion, Violence, and Women's Empowerment in Latin America / Monica Maher -- Pt. IV. Sexual Autonomy and Global Politics -- 15. Women, Culture and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Does the Empowerment Discourse Leave Out? / Kawango E. Agot -- 16. Age of Consent Law and Moral Order: The Criminalization of Youth Sexual Relationships in Uganda / Shanti A. Parikh -- 17. Hijacking Global Feminism: Feminists, the Catholic Church, and the Family Planning Debacle in Peru / Christina Ewig.