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Institutionalizing Gender Equality : Historical and Global Perspectives.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (286 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498516747
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Institutionalizing Gender EqualityDDC classification:
  • 305.42
LOC classification:
  • HQ1236.I494 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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