Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-376) and index
Introduction: Markets, communities, and empowerment / Carolyn M. Elliott. pt. I. Globalization and neoliberal governance -- Competing empowerments : gender and neoliberal punishment in the East and West / Lynne Haney -- Biology and destiny : women, work, birthrates, and assisted reproductive technologies / Wendy Chavkin -- Socio-economic transformation under globalization : the case of Nepalese women / Meena Acharya -- Empowerment of women migrant factory workers in South China : opportunities and contradiction / Esther Ngan-Ling Chow -- Transnational domestication : state power and Indonesian migrant women in Saudi Arabia / Rachel Silvey -- Domains of empowerment : women in micro-credit groups negotiating with multiple patriarchies / Lakshmi Lingam. pt. II. Politicized religions and citizenship -- Gender, nation and dilemmas of citizenship : the case of the marriage acts of Trinidad and Tobago / Rhoda Reddock -- Constructing the female Muslim citizen : law as a site of struggle for inclusion and exclusion / Titia Loenen -- Shariʼah activism in Nigeria under Hudud / Margot Badran -- The land of real men and real women : gender and EU accession in three Polish weeklies / Agnieszka Graff. pt. III. Gender violence and masculinities -- Sexual violence against women and the experience of truth commissions / Julissa Mantilla Falcon -- Rape, trauma and meaning / Nicola Gavey -- Understanding masculinities, empowering women : what have boys in Ghana to do with it? / Akosua Adomako Ampofo, John Boateng -- The truth will set us free : religion, violence, and women's empowerment in Latin America / Monica Maher. pt. IV. Sexual autonomy and global politics -- Women, culture and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa : what does the empowerment discourse leave out? / Kawango E. Agot -- Age of consent law and moral order : the criminalization of youth sexual relationships in Uganda / Shanti A. Parikh -- Hijacking global feminism : feminists, the
Catholic Church, and the family planning debacle in Peru / Christina Ewig
