| Description |
xii, 315 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-298) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Gender politics in global governance / Elisabeth Prügl and Mary K. Meyer -- Part 1 -- Women workers in the United Nations : from margin to mainstream? / Francine D'Amico -- United Nations peacekeeping : men's and women's work / Judith Hicks Stiehm -- Negotiating international norms : the Inter-American Commission of Women and the Convention on Violence Against Women / Mary K. Meyer -- Gender and transnational democracy : the case of the European Union / Catherine Hoskyns -- Nongovernmental organizations : an alternative power base for women? / Irene Tinker -- Part 2 -- The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom : organizing women for peace in the war system / Mary K. Meyer International women's activism and the 1994 Cairo Population Conference / Amy J. Higer -- Shaping the human rights agenda : the case of violence against women / Jutta Joachim -- Realizing women's human rights : nongovernmental organizations and the United Nations treaty bodies / Alice M. Miller -- The United Nations Women's Conferences and feminist politics / Lois A. West -- Part 3 -- What is a worker? Gender, global restructuring, and the ILO Convention on Homework / Elisabeth Prugl -- Women in the neoliberal "frame" / Anne Sisson Runyan -- An ecofeminist critique of the international economic structure / Stephanie Hallock Johnson -- Trafficking in women : alternate migration or modern slave trade? / Emek M. Ucarer -- Gender construction and the protection mandate of the UNHCR : responses from Guatemalan women / Erin K. Baines -- Of roots, leaves, and trees : gender, social movements, and global governance / Debrah Stienstra. |
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Women -- Political activity.
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International relations.
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International agencies.
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International organization.
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Feminist theory.
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| Added Author |
Meyer, Mary K., 1957-
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Prügl, Elisabeth.
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| ISBN |
0847691608 cloth alkaline paper |
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0847691616 paperback alkaline paper |
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