| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 230 pages) |
| Series |
United Nations intellectual history project |
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United Nations intellectual history project (Series)
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| Contents |
Introduction: Women, development, and equality: history as inconclusive dialogue -- Setting the stage for equality, 1945-1965 -- Inscribing development into rights, 1966-1975 -- Questioning development paradigms, 1976-1985 -- Development as if women mattered, 1986-1995 -- Lessons from the UN's sixth decade, 1996-2005 |
| Summary |
"Devaki Jain opens the doors of the United Nations and shows how it has changed the female half of the world -- and vice versa. Women, Development, and the UN is a book that every global citizen, government leader, journalist, academic, and self-respecting woman should read."--Gloria Steinem"Devaki Jain's book nurtures your optimism in this terrible war-torn decade by describing how women succeeded in empowering both themselves and the United Nations to work toward a global leadership inspired by .. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-210) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
United Nations.
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| SUBJECT |
United Nations fast |
| Subject |
Women in development -- International cooperation -- History
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Women's rights -- International cooperation -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
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Women in development -- International cooperation
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Women's rights -- International cooperation
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0253346975 |
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9780253346971 |
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0253218195 |
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9780253218193 |
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0253111846 |
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9780253111845 |
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