Women and Gender in International History: Theory and Practice

✍ Scribed by Karen Garner

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 297
• Series: New Approaches to International History
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Most governments and global political organizations have been dominated by male leaders and structures that institutionalize male privilege. As Women and Gender in International History reveals, however, women have participated in and influenced the traditional concerns of international history even as they have expanded those concerns in new directions.
Karen Garner provides a timely synthesis of key scholarship and establishes the influential roles that women and gender power relations have wielded in determining the course of international history. From the early-20th century onward, women have participated in state-to-state relations and decisions about when to pursue diplomacy or when to go to war to settle international conflicts. Particular women, as well as masculine and feminine gender role constructs, have also influenced the establishment and evolution of intergovernmental organizations and their political, social and economic policy making regimes and agencies. Additionally, feminists have critiqued male-dominated diplomatic establishment and intergovernmental organizations and have proposed alternative theories and practices.
This text integrates women, and gender and feminist analyses, into the study of international history in order to produce a broader understanding of processes of international change during the 20th and 21st centuries.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Series Editor Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Key concepts
References for further study
Web resources
Bibliography
Chapter 2: Women, gender, and IR and critical theories
Key concepts
Introduction
Liberalism
Realism
Neoliberalism
Constructivism
Critical feminist IR theory
Feminist foreign policy
Summing up
References for further study
Web resources
Bibliography
Chapter 3: Women, gender, and war
Key concepts
Introduction
Women, gender, and the First World War
Women, gender, and the Second World War
Women, gender, and the Cold War
Women, gender, and the Bosnian War
Summing up
References for further study
Web resources
Bibliography
Chapter 4: Women, gender, and intergovernmental organizations
Key concepts
Introduction
Women, gender, and the League of Nations
Women, gender, and the United Nations, 1940s–60s
The UN Conferences on Women 1975, 1980, 1985, and 1995
Women, gender, and the European Union
Women, gender, and UNSCR 1325
Summing up
References for further study
Web resources
Bibliography
Chapter 5: Women, gender, and global development
Key concepts
Introduction
Women, gender, and development in the League of Nations era
Women, gender, and post–Second World War modernization, 1945–60s
Women, gender, and development, 1970s–80s
Women, gender, and development, 1990s–2000s
Summing up
References for further study
Web resources
Bibliography
Chapter 6: Women, gender, and government leadership
Key concepts
Introduction
Small numbers of women in elite leadership
Gender and elite leadership
Formal and informal barriers to women’s leadership
Feminist strategies to overcome barriers
Women in elite leadership positions
Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India, 1966–77, 1980–84 (assassinated in 1984)
Margaret Thatcher, prime minister of the UK, 1979–90
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia, 2006–17
Michelle Bachelet Jeria, president of Chile 2006–10, first director of UN Women 2010–13; president of Chile 2014–present
Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, 2005–present
Summing up
Notes
References for further study
Web resources
Bibliography
Chapter 7: Women, gender, and diplomacy
Key concepts
Introduction
Women, gender, and diplomacy during the League of Nations era
Women, gender, and diplomacy at the United Nations
The delayed advance of the woman diplomat in the United States and Great Britain
Women, gender, and diplomatic relations with Iran
Summing up
References for further study
Web resources
Bibliography
Index