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Institutionalizing Gender Equality
Historical and Global Perspectives
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2015
Summary
Forty years have passed since the first UN-organized World Conference on Women in Mexico City in 1975. In that time, women’s rights, and later gender equality, have become firmly established as an important area of global politics and human rights. What shape have these processes taken in different parts of the world? How do global and internationally designed institutions adapt to local cultural, religious, political, and economic contexts? What are the problems and contradictions embedded in this process when viewed from a global perspective? What effects do grassroots, local, and national actors have on transnational institutions? In answering the questions, the book draws on historical and global perspectives, beginning in the 1960s, an important moment for internationalization during the Cold War, and looking to a global selection of case studies.
Providing a series of “snapshots” of historical and contemporary global gender equality politics, the chapters allow for an examination of how local, national, and transnational actors have interacted in ways that affect the dissemination of gender equality institutions, both formal and informal. The case studies demonstrate the relationship between the supranational, regional, national, and sub-national or “local.” They explore the power dynamics, interactions, and mutually constituting nature of two analytic levels of organizations and actors involved in the institutionalization of gender equality–the transnational level as well as the level of activity within specific national political systems (as represented by states, grassroots organizations, and other sub-national actors). The findings reveal that the institutionalization of gender equality is dependent on national and local context, the potential for interactions between gender equality policies and other state agendas, the depth of informal institutions, and the degree to which a given state is integrated into the norms of the international system.
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Copyright year
2015
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-1673-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-1674-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
272
Product type
Edited Book
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Acknowledgments No access
List of Abbreviations No access
1 Internationalization, Institutionalization, and Glocalization No access Pages 1 - 18
2 Global Ideas in Local Media No access
3 Article 119 No access
4 The National Union of Mexican Women and Maternalist Alternatives in Global Women’s Politics No access
5 Gender Equality Politics in Aging Welfare Societies No access
6 Women’s Resource Centers No access
7 Gender Equality Incorporated? No access
8 Voicing Roma Women No access
9 (Non-)Engendering Regional Human Rights Institutions in Russia No access
10 Global Strategies and Local Implementations No access
11 Gender Equality in Kazakhstan and the Role of International Actors in Its Institutionalization No access
12 “This Law Is Simply a Blind Copy of the Most Radical Feminist Laws of Northern Europe” No access
