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Women and gender in international history : theory and practice /

"Most governments and global political organizations have been dominated by male leaders and structures that institutionalize male privilege. As Women and Gender in International History reveals, however, women have participated in and influenced the traditional concerns of international histor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Garner, Karen, 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
Colección:New approaches to international history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Series Editor Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; Key concepts; References for further study; Web resources; Bibliography; Chapter 2: Women, gender, and IR and critical theories; Key concepts; Introduction; Liberalism; Realism; Neoliberalism; Constructivism; Critical feminist IR theory; Feminist foreign policy; Summing up; References for further study; Web resources; Bibliography; Chapter 3: Women, gender, and war; Key concepts; Introduction; Women, gender, and the First World War.
  • Women, gender, and the Second World War; Women, gender, and the Cold War; Women, gender, and the Bosnian War; Summing up; References for further study; Web resources; Bibliography; Chapter 4: Women, gender, and intergovernmental organizations; Key concepts; Introduction; Women, gender, and the League of Nations; Women, gender, and the United Nations, 1940s-60s; The UN Conferences on Women 1975, 1980, 1985, and 1995; Women, gender, and the European Union; Women, gender, and UNSCR 1325; Summing up; References for further study; Web resources; Bibliography.
  • Chapter 5: Women, gender, and global development; Key concepts; Introduction; Women, gender, and development in the League of Nations era; Women, gender, and post-Second World War modernization, 1945-60s; Women, gender, and development, 1970s-80s; Women, gender, and development, 1990s-2000s; Summing up; References for further study; Web resources; Bibliography; Chapter 6: Women, gender, and government leadership; Key concepts; Introduction; Small numbers of women in elite leadership; Gender and elite leadership; Formal and informal barriers to women's leadership.
  • Feminist strategies to overcome barriers; Women in elite leadership positions; Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India, 1966-77, 1980-84 (assassinated in 1984); Margaret Thatcher, prime minister of the UK, 1979-90; Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia, 2006-17; Michelle Bachelet Jeria, president of Chile 2006-10, first director of UN Women 2010-13; president of Chile 2014-present; Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, 2005-present; Summing up; Notes; References for further study; Web resources; Bibliography; Chapter 7: Women, gender, and diplomacy; Key concepts; Introduction.
  • Women, gender, and diplomacy during the League of Nations era; Women, gender, and diplomacy at the United Nations; The delayed advance of the woman diplomat in the United States and Great Britain; Women, gender, and diplomatic relations with Iran; Summing up; References for further study; Web resources; Bibliography; Index.