Gender Politics in Global Governance by Mary K Meyer

Gender Politics in Global Governance by Mary K Meyer

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.

Overall this constitutes a very useful text for students and teachers alikeAll of the contributions are well-written, clear and accessible... -- Jill Steans, niversity of Keele Ethnicity and Cultural Politics Provides a wealth of material that contributes to the understanding of the dynamics of global governance more broadly. That many of the authors have considerable activist experience as well as a strong academic background adds considerable authority to awork of this type... excellent chapter... analytically sophisticated and empirically informative... In sum the volume offers a rich and rewarding account of women's politics and will be profitably read by all those interested in analysing decision-making process and understanding the politics of policy change in international relations... -- John MacMillan, Keele University Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol.28, No.3 This constitutes a very useful text for students and teachers alike. All of the contributions are well-written, clear and accessible and there is a useful appendix which sets out the UN system and how it works. This book should be recommended reading for students on global governance courses as well as more specialized gender and international relations / politics options. -- Jill Steans, University of Keele International Affairs, Vol.75, No.4, Oct.1999 For International Relations specialists this book is a must-read. Feminist Collections: A Quarterly Of Women's Studies Resources This is a very useful introductory text book to issues of international feminism and women and politics at an international level. Irish Journal Of Feminist Studies An important lesson one learns from reading these rich case studies is: asking the sort of feminist questions that have shed so much light on local militaries and welfare bureaucracies can produce equivalent revelations about the masculinist political cultures and everyday workings of international agencies. After one reads Gender Politics in Global Governance, the UN, OAS, and EU will never look the same, nor will feminist activism. This is a breakthrough book. -- Cynthia Enloe, author of Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics Provides a wealth of material that contributes to the understanding of the dynamics of global governance more broadly. That many of the authors have considerable activist experience as well as a strong academic background adds considerable authority to a work of this type. ... excellent chapter... ... analytically sophisticated and empirically informative... In sum the volume offers a rich and rewarding account of women's politics and will be profitably read by all those interested in analysing decision-making process and understanding the politics of policy change in international relations. -- John MacMillan, Keele University Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol.28, No.3 It is well worth the attention of those who study and teach international relations as well as those concerned to understand the involvement of women with political action. Canadian Journal of Political Science

Mary K. Meyer is associate professor of political science at Eckerd College. Elisabeth PrYgl is assistant professor of international relations at Florida International University.

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ISBN 13	9780847691616
ISBN 10	0847691616
Title	Gender Politics in Global Governance
Author	Mary K Meyer
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Rowman & Littlefield
Year published	1999-01-14
Number of pages	328
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