Gender Politics in Global Governance

by Meyer, Mary K.

• ISBN13: 9780847691616
• ISBN10: 0847691616
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

From the grassroots to the global, women's movements worldwide are taking on new arenas, new goals and strategies, and in some cases a whole new vocabulary. International organizations, nonstate actors, regimes and norms, and a host of globalizing forces offer women and their representatives new opportunities and obstacles. 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. The contributors describe the spaces women have carved out in international organizations, the strategies women's movements have employed to influence international politics, and the ways in which movement activism has contested gendered rules in global governance. Out of a stimulating diversity of approaches, the common goal of empowering women resounds.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	v	(1)
List of Tables	vi	(1)
Preface	vii	(2)
List of Abbreviations	ix
Introduction
1 Gender Politics in Global Governance	3	(16)
Elisabeth Prugl
Mary K. Meyer
Part I. Locating Women: Organizational Spaces in Global Governance	19	(88)
2 Women Workers in the United Nations: From Margin to Mainstream?	19	(22)
Francine D'Amico
3 United Nations Peacekeeping: Men's and Women's Work	41	(17)
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	(16)
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	(90)
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	(20)
Amy J. Higer
9 Shaping the Human Rights Agenda: The Case of Violence against Women	142	(19)
Jutta Joachim
10 Realizing Women's Human Rights: Nongovernmental Organizations and the United Nations Treaty Bodies	161	(16)
Alice M. Miller
11 The United Nations Women's Conferences and Feminist Politics	177	(20)
Lois A. West
Part III. Contesting Language: Gendered Rules in Global Governance	197	(76)
12 What Is a Worker? Gender, Global Restructuring, and the ILO Convention on Homework	197	(13)
Elisabeth Prugl
13 Women in the Neoliberal "Frame"	210	(11)
Anne Sisson Runyan
14 An Ecofeminist Critique of the International Economic Structure	221	(9)
Stephanie Hallock Johnson
15 Trafficking in Women: Alternate Migration or Modern Slave Trade?	230	(15)
Emek M. Ucarer
16 Gender Construction and the Protection Mandate of the UNHCR: Responses from Guatemalan Women	245	(15)
Erin K. Baines
17 Of Roots, Leaves, and Trees: Gender, Social Movements, and Global Governance	260	(13)
Deborah Stienstra
Works Cited	273	(26)
Appendix: The United Nations System	299	(2)
Index	301	(12)
About the Contributors	313