Common ground or mutual exclusion?
Subtitle: women's movements and international relations
By: edited by Marianne Braig and Sonja Woelte.
Contributors: Braig, Marianne, 1953-; Woelte, Sonja, 1968-
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: International relations; Women in politics; Feminism
Description: To what extent, and how, can women's movements influence the international political agenda? The contributors to this book explore the impacts women have made in development theory and practice, conflict management, and the conceptualization and politics of human rights.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-220) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : common ground or mutual exclusion? Women's movement in international relations / Marianne Braig and Sonja Wölte; title: Feminists in international relations : what impact on the discipline? / Marysia Zalewski; title: The impact of the global women's movement on international relations : has it happened? What has happened? / Nighat Said Khan; title: Accommodation or transformation? Women's movements and international relations : some remarks on Marysia Zalewski's and Nighat Said Khan's contributions / Christa Wicheterich; title: Mainstream gender -a critical revision / Claudia van Braunmühl; title: Reclaiming the empowerment discourse : a challenge to feminists / Carolyn Medel-An̋onuevo; title: Women's interest in social policy - rhetoric and realities of social investment funds / Renate Rott; title: Engendering the field of conflict management : why gender does not matter! Thoughts from a theoretical perspective / Cordula Reimann; title: Making a difference? The inclusion of gender into institutional conflict management policies / Donna Pankhurst; title: War in empty rooms and Sudanese women's union / Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim; title: Global women's politics : towards the 'globalizing' of women's human rights? / Uta Ruppert; title: Economic and social rights of women : a West African perspective / Akua Kuenyehia; title: Claiming rights and contesting spaces : Women's movements and the international women's human rights disclosure in Africa / Sonja Wölte; title: Difference and dialogue in development / Lothar Brock; title: Feminism and mainstream international relations theory / Harald Müller; title: Feminism, human rights and international relations / Gert Krell.