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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jain, Devaki, 1933-

Series:

United Nations intellectual history project (Series)

United Nations intellectual history project

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in development--International cooperation--History.

Women in development.

Women's rights--International cooperation--History.

Women's rights.

United Nations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-210) and index.

ISBN:

9786612072758

1-282-07275-7

0-253-11184-6

OCLC:

172683107