1st Edition
Feminist Strategies in International Governance
The struggle for women’s rights and to overcome gender oppression has long engaged the efforts of inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations. Feminist Strategies in International Governance provides a new introduction to the contemporary forms of this struggle. It brings together the voices of academics and practitioners to reflect in particular on the effectiveness of human rights strategies and gender mainstreaming. It covers three international issue areas in which feminists currently seek change: women’s human rights and violence against women; the participation of women in peace-making and their protection during conflict; and the gendered effects of development, economic and financial governance.
The book combines a critical reflection on the current state of feminist politics with an introduction to urgent issues on the contemporary international agenda. In addition, the book draws on innovative conceptualizations from constructivism in international relations, legal anthropology and discourse theory to provide new framings of current feminist struggles.
Offering an accessible guide to the engendering of international governance and examining the challenges for international feminist politics in the future, this work will be of great interest to students and scholars of international organizations, gender politics and global governance.
1. Introduction: Feminist Strategies in International Governance: Past Insights, New Visions and Future Prospects Gülay Caglar, Elisabeth Prügl and Susanne Zwingel Part I: Feminist Strategies 2. Civil Society Strategies: The Weight of Outsider Interventions Mariama Williams 3. Feminist Strategies within International Organizations Carolyn Hannan 4. Gender Mainstreaming Laura Parisi & Jacqui True 5. International Law - A Travel Guide for Gender Justice? Hilary Charlesworth 6. Gender Expertise Elisabeth Prügl Part II: How do Gender Norms Travel? 7. Translating International Women’s Rights: CEDAW in Context Susanne Zwingel 8. Vernacularization in Action: Combining Global and Local Ideas about Women’s Rights in Peru Peggy Levitt 9. Translating International Norms: Filters to Combating Violence Against Women in Lebanon Rita Sabat Part III: Feminist Strategies in Security Governance 10. Gender Mainstreaming of UN Peace Operations Claudia von Braunmühl 11. Changing Discourses, Changing Practices? Gender Mainstreaming and Security Jutta Joachim and Schneiker 12. Women's Rights in Post-War States: International Peacebuilding Operations and Feminist Policy Change Anne Jenichen Part IV: Economic Governance and Governmentality 13. Governing the Economy for Gender Equality? Challenges of Regulation Shahra Razavi 14. Economic Governance and the Regulation of Intimacy in Gender and Development Planning: Lessons from the World Bank's Latin American Programming Kate Bedford 15. Crisis and Economic Knowledge Gülay Caglar 16. Gender and the Technocratic Network Governance in Finance Brigitte Young 17. Global Feminist Movements Ilse Lenz
Biography
Gülay Caglar is a research fellow in the Division of "Gender and Globalization" at the Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany. Her research focuses on gender politics in global economic governance.
Elisabeth Prügl is Professor of International Relations at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Her research focuses on gender politics and international organizations.
Susanne Zwingel is Associate Professor of Politics at the State University of New York in Potsdam, NY. Her research focuses on human rights and gender in global governance.
