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From the grassroots to the global, women's movements worldwide are taking on new arenas, new goals and strategies, and in some cases a whole new vocabulary. International organizations, nonstate actors, regimes and norms, and a host of globalizing forces offer women and their representatives new opportunities and obstacles. This volume draws together a wide range of exciting new research that looks at the gendered nature of the institutions, practices, and discourses of global governance. The contributors describe the spaces women have carved out in international organizations, the strategies women's movements have employed to influence international politics, and the ways in which movement activism has contested gendered rules in global governance. Out of a stimulating diversity of approaches, the common goal of empowering women resounds.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Gender Politics in Global Governance
Part 3 Part I: Locating Women: Organizational Spaces in Global Governance
Chapter 4 Women Workers in the United Nations: From Margin to Mainstream?
Chapter 5 United Nations Peacekeeping: Men's and Women's Work
Chapter 6 Negotiating International Norms: The Inter-American Commission of Women and the Convention on Violence against Women
Chapter 7 Gender and Transnational Democracy: The Case of the European Union
Chapter 8 Nongovernmental Organizations: An Alternative Power Base for Women?
Part 9 Part II: Shaping Agendas: Feminist Strategies in Global Governance
Chapter 10 The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom: Organizing Women for Peace in the War System
Chapter 11 International Women's Activism and the 1994 Cairo Population Conference
Chapter 12 Shaping the Human Rights Agenda: The Case of Violence against Women
Chapter 13 Realizing Women's Human Rights: Nongovernmental Organizations and the United Nations Treaty Bodies
Chapter 14 The United Nations Women's Conferences and Feminist Politics
Part 15 Part III: Contesting Language: Gendered Rules in Global Governance
Chapter 16 What Is a Worker? Gender, Global Restructuring, and the ILO Convention on Homework
Chapter 17 Women in the Neoliberal "Frame"
Chapter 18 An Ecofeminist Critique of the International Economic Structure
Chapter 19 Trafficking in Women: Alternate Migration or Modern Slave Trade?
Chapter 20 Gender Construction and the Protection Mandate of the UNHCR: Responses from Guatemalan Women
Chapter 21 Of Roots, Leaves, and Trees: Gender, Social Movements, and Global Governance
Chapter 22 Works Cited
Chapter 23 Appendix: The United Nations System
Chapter 24 Index

Product details

Published 14 Jan 1999
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 1
ISBN 9798216238362
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Mary K. Meyer

Anthology Editor

Elisabeth Prügl

Contributor

Erin K. Baines

Contributor

Amy J. Higer

Contributor

Jutta Joachim

Contributor

Alice M. Miller

Contributor

Judith Hicks Stiehm

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Irene Tinker

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Emek Uçarer

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Lois A. West

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