Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946-1975 /

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"Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946-1975 tells the story of how women's bodies were at the center of the international politics of women's rights in the postwar period. Giusi Russo focuses on the United Nation Commission on the Status of Women and its multip...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Russo, Giusi (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2023.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
United Nations. > Commission on the Status of Women.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.
Decolonization.
Women > Social conditions > 20th century.
Women's rights > History > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Women of the World: Visible and Invisible Bodies
  • Imperial Encounters and Occupied Bodies
  • Cold War, Competing Womanhood, and Bodies in the Microcosm
  • The Sacred Trust and the Body in Pain
  • Bodily Rituals and the Dialectic of Foreign and Local Voices
  • Bodies in Captivity, Gender Equilibrium, and the Shift from Liberal Politics
  • Reproducing the Nation and the Right to Control One's Destiny.

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