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Shaping a Global Women´s Agenda: Women´s Ngos and Global Governance, 1925-85
Karen Garner
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Description for Shaping a Global Women´s Agenda: Women´s Ngos and Global Governance, 1925-85
Paperback. Shaping a global women's agenda documents the crucial and central role of women's international organisations played at the League of Nations and at the United Nations as the NGOs interjected concerns for women's and human rights into the global governance system. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 3JJ; JFSJ1; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 161 x 18. Weight in Grams: 482.
Available in paperback for the first time, and drawing on a wide range of archival sources, Shaping a global women's agenda documents international women's history through the lens of the long-established Western-led international organisations that defined and dominated women's involvement in global politics from the 1925 founding of the Joint Standing Committee of Women's International Organisations up through the UN Decade for Women (1976-85). Documenting specific global campaigns in episodes that span the twentieth century, Garner includes biographical information about lesser known international leaders as she discusses important historic debates regarding feminist goals and strategies among women from the East ... Read more
Available in paperback for the first time, and drawing on a wide range of archival sources, Shaping a global women's agenda documents international women's history through the lens of the long-established Western-led international organisations that defined and dominated women's involvement in global politics from the 1925 founding of the Joint Standing Committee of Women's International Organisations up through the UN Decade for Women (1976-85). Documenting specific global campaigns in episodes that span the twentieth century, Garner includes biographical information about lesser known international leaders as she discusses important historic debates regarding feminist goals and strategies among women from the East ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
481 g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719088988
SKU
V9780719088988
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About Karen Garner
Karen Garner is Assistant Professor of History at SUNY Empire State College in Latham, New York -- .
Reviews for Shaping a Global Women´s Agenda: Women´s Ngos and Global Governance, 1925-85
In Shaping a Global Women's Agenda, Karen Garner provides an impressively thorough account of the growth of Western-led women's organisations and the concomitant elevation of 'women's issues' in global governance...Shaping a Global Women's Agenda is an illuminating account of the achievements and pitfalls of a certain brand of Western internationalism, and will be of interest to historians and international relations ... Read more