Gender Politics in Global Governance

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.

List of Illustrations

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List of Tables

vi

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Preface

vii

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List of Abbreviations

ix

Introduction

3

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1 Gender Politics in Global Governance

3

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Elisabeth Prugl

Mary K. Meyer

Part I. Locating Women: Organizational Spaces in Global Governance

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2 Women Workers in the United Nations: From Margin to Mainstream?

19

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Francine D'Amico

3 United Nations Peacekeeping: Men's and Women's Work

41

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Judith Hicks Stiehm

4 Negotiating International Norms: The Inter-American Commission of Women and the Convention on Violence against Women

58

(14)

Mary K. Meyer

5 Gender and Transnational Democracy: The Case of the European Union

72

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Catherine Hoskyns

6 Nongovernmental Organizations: An Alternative Power Base for Women?

88

(19)

Irene Tinker

Part II. Shaping Agendas: Feminist Strategies in Global Governance

107

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7 The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom: Organizing Women for Peace in the War System

107

(15)

Mary K. Meyer

8 International Women's Activism and the 1994 Cairo Population Conference

122

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Amy J. Higer

9 Shaping the Human Rights Agenda: The Case of Violence against Women

142

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Jutta Joachim

10 Realizing Women's Human Rights: Nongovernmental Organizations and the United Nations Treaty Bodies

161

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Alice M. Miller

11 The United Nations Women's Conferences and Feminist Politics

177

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Lois A. West

Part III. Contesting Language: Gendered Rules in Global Governance

197

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12 What Is a Worker? Gender, Global Restructuring, and the ILO Convention on Homework

197

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Elisabeth Prugl

13 Women in the Neoliberal "Frame"

210

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Anne Sisson Runyan

14 An Ecofeminist Critique of the International Economic Structure

221

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Stephanie Hallock Johnson

15 Trafficking in Women: Alternate Migration or Modern Slave Trade?

230

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Emek M. Ucarer

16 Gender Construction and the Protection Mandate of the UNHCR: Responses from Guatemalan Women

245

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Erin K. Baines

17 Of Roots, Leaves, and Trees: Gender, Social Movements, and Global Governance

260

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Deborah Stienstra

Works Cited

273

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Appendix: The United Nations System

299

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Index

301

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About the Contributors

313

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