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Autore: |
Jain Devaki <1933->
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Titolo: |
Women, development, and the UN : a sixty-year quest for equality and justice / / Devaki Jain ; foreword by Amartya Sen
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Pubblicazione: | Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2005 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
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.: | 9910812436103321 |
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