Women, development, and the UN [[electronic resource] ] : a sixty-year quest for equality and justice / / Devaki Jain ; foreword by Amartya Sen

• Autore: Jain Devaki <1933->
• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.42/09172/4
• Soggetto topico: Women in development - International cooperation - History; Women's rights - International cooperation - History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-210) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Women, development, and equality : history as inconclusive dialogue -- Setting the stage for equality, 1945-1965 -- Inscribing development into rights, 1966-1975 -- Questioning development paradigms, 1976-1985 -- Development as if women mattered, 1986-1995 -- Lessons from the UN's sixth decade, 1996-2005.
• Sommario/riassunto: ""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 inspiration
• Titolo autorizzato: Women, development, and the UN
• ISBN: 9786612072758; 1-282-07275-7; 0-253-11184-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784662503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: United Nations intellectual history project (Series)