Editors: Gülay Caglar, Elisabeth Prügl, Susanne Zwingel
Title: Feminist Strategies in International Governance
Series: Global Institutions
Pages: 314
Price: £ 85,00
ISBN: 978-0-415-50905-3
New Publication 3rd December 2012
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The struggle for women’s rights and to
overcome gender oppression has long engaged the efforts of
inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations. Feminist Strategies in International Governance
provides a new introduction to the contemporary forms of this struggle.
It brings together the voices of academics and practitioners to reflect
in particular on the effectiveness of human rights strategies and
gender mainstreaming. It covers three international issue areas in which
feminists currently seek change: women’s human rights and violence
against women; the participation of women in peace-making and their
protection during conflict; and the gendered effects of development,
economic and financial governance.
The book combines a critical reflection on the current state of
feminist politics with an introduction to urgent issues on the
contemporary international agenda. In addition, the book draws on
innovative conceptualizations from constructivism in international
relations, legal anthropology and discourse theory to provide new
framings of current feminist struggles.
Offering an accessible guide to the engendering of international
governance and examining the challenges for international feminist
politics in the future, this work will be of great interest to students
and scholars of international organizations, gender politics and global
governance.
Gülay Caglar is a research fellow
in the Division of "Gender and Globalization" at the Humboldt-University
of Berlin, Germany. Her research focuses on gender politics in global
economic governance.
Elisabeth Prügl is Professor of International
Relations at the Graduate Institute of International and Development
Studies in Geneva. Her research focuses on gender politics and
international organizations.
Susanne Zwingel is Associate Professor of Politics
at the State University of New York in Potsdam, NY. Her research focuses
on human rights and gender in global governance.