ISBN:
9781498516747
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (286 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.4
Keywords:
Women - Political activity
;
Women - Political activity
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
The book explores the internationalization and institutionalization of gender politics from the late 1960s to the present. It examines the successes, difficulties, and contradictions of this process by taking a global perspective, including case studies on the European Union, Mexico, South Korea, and Egypt, among others.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Internationalization, Institutionalization, and Glocalization -- I: Cold War Gender Equality Politics in a Global Framework -- 2 Global Ideas in Local Media -- 3 Article 119 -- 4 The National Union of Mexican Women and Maternalist Alternatives in Global Women's Politics -- II: The Multiple Contexts of Gender Equality -- 5 Gender Equality Politics in Aging Welfare Societies -- 6 Women's Resource Centers -- 7 Gender Equality Incorporated? -- III: Transfer and Legitimacy in the Institutionalization of Gender Equality -- 8 Voicing Roma Women -- 9 (Non-)Engendering Regional Human Rights Institutions in Russia -- 10 Global Strategies and Local Implementations -- 11 Gender Equality in Kazakhstan and the Role of International Actors in Its Institutionalization -- IV: Gender Equality at Risk? -- 12 "This Law Is Simply a Blind Copy of the Most Radical Feminist Laws of Northern Europe" -- 13 Challenging Global Gender Politics -- Index -- About the Contributors.
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