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Institutionalizing Gender Equality: Historical and Global Perspectives

Institutionalizing Gender Equality: Historical and Global Perspectives

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General Gender StudiesGeneral World HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1498516734
ISBN13: 9781498516730
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Oct 8 2015
Pages: 284
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Forty years have passed since the first UN-organized World Conference on Women in Mexico City in 1975. In that time, women's rights, and later gender equality, have become firmly established as an important area of global politics and human rights. What shape have these processes taken in different parts of the world? How do global and internationally designed institutions adapt to local cultural, religious, political, and economic contexts? What are the problems and contradictions embedded in this process when viewed from a global perspective? What effects do grassroots, local, and national actors have on transnational institutions? In answering the questions, the book draws on historical and global perspectives, beginning in the 1960s, an important moment for internationalization during the Cold War, and looking to a global selection of case studies.

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