Institutionalizing gender equality : historical and global perspectives /
"Forty years have passed since the first UN-organized World Conference on Women in Mexico City in 1975. In that time, women’s rights, and later gender equality, have become firmly established as an important area of global politics and human rights. What shape have these processes taken in diff...
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Lanham [Maryland] :
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[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Internationalization, institutionalization, and globalization: gender equality as process / Yulia Gradskova and Sara Sanders
- Cold War gender equality politics in a global framework. Global ideas in local media: negotiating the ideas of gender equality in a Finnish women's magazine---the case of Anna, 1965-1970 / Heidi Kurvinen ; Article 119: how stewardesses obtained equal pay in the European Community (Belgium, 1968-1980) / Vanessa D'Hooghe ; The National Union of Mexican Women and maternalist alternatives in global women's politics / Sara Sanders
- The multiple contexts of gender equality. Gender equality politics in aging welfare societies: the case of the European Union / Heike Kahlert ; Women's resource centers: a democratic innovation for gendered-equal growth / Malin Lindberg ; Gender equality incorporated?: Coca-Cola's and Wal-Mart's initiatives for female empowerment in Mexico
- Transfer and legitimacy in the institutionalization of gender equality. Voicing Roma women: intersectional marginalities and social entrepreneurship of a Roma women's NGO in Hungary / Ildikó Asztalos Morell ; (Non-)Engendering regional human rights institutions in Russia: had global really met local? / Tatiana Barandova ; Global strategies and local implementations: gender quotas in South Korea and Taiwan / Chang-Ling Huang ; Gender equality in Kazakhstan and the role of international actors in its institutionalization / Svetlana Shakirova
- Gender equality at risk? "This law is simply a blind copy of the most radical feminist laws of Northern Europe": gender equality (non)institutionalization---an example of Nordic cooperation with Northwest Russia / Yulia Gradskova ; Challenging global gender politics: Egypt's Islamist experience / An Van Raemdonck.