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



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Autore: Jain Devaki <1933-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Women, development, and the UN [[electronic resource] ] : a sixty-year quest for equality and justice / / Devaki Jain ; foreword by Amartya Sen Visualizza cluster
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
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9786612072758
1-282-07275-7
0-253-11184-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910457757403321
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Serie: United Nations intellectual history project (Series)