Women, Development, and the UN: A Sixty-Year Quest for Equality and JusticeIndiana University Press, 2005 M10 17 - 256 pages "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 human dignity." -- Fatema Mernissi In Women, Development, and the UN, internationally noted development economist and activist Devaki Jain traces the ways in which women have enriched the work of the United Nations from the time of its founding in 1945. Synthesizing insights from the extensive literature on women and development and from her own broad experience, Jain reviews the evolution of the UN's programs aimed at benefiting the women of developing nations and the impact of women's ideas about rights, equality, and social justice on UN thinking and practice regarding development. Jain presents this history from the perspective of the southern hemisphere, which recognizes that development issues often look different when viewed from the standpoint of countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The book highlights the contributions of the four global women's conferences in Mexico City, Copenhagen, Nairobi, and Beijing in raising awareness, building confidence, spreading ideas, and creating alliances. The history that Jain chronicles reveals both the achievements of committed networks of women in partnership with the UN and the urgent work remaining to bring equality and justice to the world and its women. |
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Contents
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Setting the Stage for Equality 19451965 | 11 |
Inscribing Development into Rights 19661975 | 43 |
Questioning Development Paradigms 19761985 | 73 |
Development as if Women Mattered 19861995 | 102 |
Lessons from the UNs Sixth Decade 19962005 | 135 |
Notes | 169 |
Bibliography | 193 |
Index | 211 |
About the Author | 227 |
About the United Nations Intellectual History Project | 229 |
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