Beijing and Beyond: Toward the Twenty-first Century of Women : Includes the Complete Text of the Platform for ActionFlorence Howe Feminist Press at CUNY, 1996 - 470 pages Beijing and Beyond offers an invaluable and diverse compilation of perspectives, documents, and resources including the complete Platform for Action; excerpts from over twenty speeches delivered at The Fourth World Conference on Women including Gertrude Mongella, Bella Abzug, Leticia Ramos-Shahani, Hillary Clinton, Mohatarma Benazir Bhutto; and reports from Robin Morgan and Gloria Bonder which put the conference and The Platform for Action in perspective. National reports on women's studies include those from South Africa, Uganda, Ghana, Hungary, Latvia, Turkey, Korea, China, Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, and Peru. Topics covered include mainstreaming women's studies; women's history in a global perspective; women's studies and public policy; and shared visions of women's studies in the twenty-first century. This is the essential volume for anyone wanting to put the 1995 Beijing conference in perspective. |
Contents
Editorial | 5 |
The Road to Huairou and Beijing | 16 |
How It HappenedFrom Day | 18 |
Action Is the Only Way Forward | 40 |
Words to Break the Silence | 42 |
Good News | 46 |
Building a Sustainable and | 54 |
No Longer Invisible | 57 |
9 HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN | 150 |
10 WOMEN AND | 151 |
11 WOMEN AND THE | 152 |
12 THE GIRL CHILD | 153 |
Beijing Declaration | 154 |
Contents | 159 |
Chapter I | 160 |
Chapter II | 162 |
Pursuing an Agenda | 60 |
Youth Organizations as Partners | 64 |
What Will You Do?Womens | 66 |
DELING 35 | 69 |
The Fight for the Liberation | 91 |
Womens Rights Are | 98 |
The Planet Earth Is Our | 102 |
Remove the Brackets | 105 |
to Global Poverty | 107 |
Invest in the Education | 110 |
Making Commitments a Reality | 112 |
A Revolution Has Begun | 116 |
A Global Movement | 117 |
United States Commitments | 123 |
Contract with Women of the USA | 128 |
Womens Power Is a | 131 |
Toward the TwentyFirst Century | 135 |
1 WOMEN AND POVERTY | 142 |
2 EDUCATION AND TRAINING | 143 |
3 WOMEN AND HEALTH | 144 |
4 VIOLENCE AGAINST | 145 |
5 | 146 |
6 WOMEN AND THE | 147 |
7 WOMEN IN POWER AND | 148 |
8 INSTITUTIONAL MECHANISMS | 149 |
Chapter III | 171 |
Chapter IV | 173 |
Chapter V | 274 |
Chapter VI | 285 |
A Review of Resource Volumes | 290 |
Womens Studies in Germany | 299 |
Womens Studies in Korea | 317 |
Womens Studies in the | 327 |
Womens Studies in Norway | 343 |
Tao Jie | 351 |
Gender Studies in Peru | 364 |
Womens Studies in South Africa | 378 |
Womens Studies in Turkey | 400 |
Womens Studies in Ghana | 412 |
Womens Studies in Hungary | 423 |
Womens Studies in Latvia | 438 |
Womens Studies in Uganda | 449 |
Newsbriefs | 465 |
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