Women and Gender in International History: Theory and Practice - Brossura

Garner, Karen

Brossura

ISBN 10: 147257611X ISBN 13: 9781472576118

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury USA Academic, 2018

Riassunto

Most governments and global political organizations have been dominated by male leaders and structures that institutionalize male privilege. As Women and Gender in International History reveals, however, women have participated in and influenced the traditional concerns of international history even as they have expanded those concerns in new directions.

Karen Garner provides a timely synthesis of key scholarship and establishes the influential roles that women and gender power relations have wielded in determining the course of international history. From the early-20th century onward, women have participated in state-to-state relations and decisions about when to pursue diplomacy or when to go to war to settle international conflicts. Particular women, as well as masculine and feminine gender role constructs, have also influenced the establishment and evolution of intergovernmental organizations and their political, social and economic policy making regimes and agencies. Additionally, feminists have critiqued male-dominated diplomatic establishment and intergovernmental organizations and have proposed alternative theories and practices.

This text integrates women, and gender and feminist analyses, into the study of international history in order to produce a broader understanding of processes of international change during the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Recensione:

This is an extremely useful and well-designed volume which offers for the first time a coherent, overarching narrative of womens presence and agency across different domains of international politics and policy-making in the 20th and 21st centuries. --- Helen McCarthy, Reader in Modern British History, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

L'autore:

Karen Garner is Professor of Historical Studies at SUNY Empire State College, USA. She is a Fulbright Scholar and author of Precious Fire: Maud Russell and the Chinese Revolution (2003), Shaping a Global Women's Agenda: Women's NGOs and Global Governance, 1925-85 (2010) and Gender and Foreign Policy in the Clinton Administration (2013).

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• Editore: Bloomsbury USA Academic
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• ISBN 10: 147257611X
• ISBN 13: 9781472576118
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 275