The contributors to this volume provide a survey of the existing gender machineries on the international level, explore the way in which feminist movements have approached international organizations and the way IOs have responded, and examine the laws and norms that have been produced and their effects in local contexts globally.
The struggle for womens 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: womens 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.
Recenzijos
"Feminist Strategies in International Governance is likely to become a fixture in graduate IR gender courses, and future editions might include more coverage of the track record of UN Women as it develops and reflections on its successes and failures in the formulation, implementation, and monitoring of global gender norms and standards as they relate to the arguments found in the collection. The book as it stands provides an excellent example of engaged IR scholarship and will hopefully help improve the quality of feminist strategy, shape the agenda of powerful institutions like the UN and World Bank, and contribute to these institutions ability to nurture innovative feminist policies."
- Eric M. Blanchard, Columbia University, e-International Relations 2014
1. Introduction: Feminist Strategies in International Governance: Past
Insights, New Visions and Future Prospects Gülay Caglar, Elisabeth Prügl and
Susanne Zwingel Part 1: Feminist Strategies 2.Civil Society Strategies: The
Weight of Outsider Interventions Mariama Williams
3. Feminist Strategies
within International Organizations Carolyn Hannan
4. Gender Mainstreaming
Laura Parisi& Jacqui True
5. International Law - A Travel Guide for Gender
Justice? Hilary Charlesworth
6. Gender Expertise Elisabeth Prügl Part 2: How
do Gender Norms Travel?
7. Translating International Womens Rights: CEDAW in
Context Susanne Zwingel
8. Vernacularization in Action: Combining Global and
Local Ideas about Womens Rights in Peru Peggy Levitt
9. Translating
International Norms: Filters to Combating Violence Against Women in Lebanon
Rita Sabat Part 3: Feminist Strategies in Security Governance
10. Gender
Mainstreaming of UN Peace Operations Claudia von Braunmühl
11. Changing
Discourses, Changing Practices? Gender Mainstreaming and Security Jutta
Joachim and Schneiker
12. Women's Rights in Post-War States: International
Peacebuilding Operations and Feminist Policy Change Anne Jenichen Part 4:
Economic Governance and Governmentality
13. Governing the Economy for Gender
Equality? Challenges of Regulation Shahra Razavi
14. Economic Governance and
the Regulation of Intimacy in Gender and Development Planning: Lessons from
the World Bank's Latin American Programming Kate Bedford
15. Crisis and
Economic Knowledge Gülay Caglar
16. Gender and the Technocratic Network
Governance in Finance Brigitte Young17. Global Feminist Movements Ilse Lenz
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.
