Women and gender in international history : theory and practice / Karen Garner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garner, Karen, author.

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Political activity--History.

Women.

Women--History.

History.

Sex role--History.

Sex role.

Women--Political activity.

Physical Description:

xvii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Women, gender, and IR and critical theories

Women, gender, and war

Women, gender, and intergovernmental organizations

Women, gender, and global development

Women, gender, and government leadership

Women, gender, and diplomacy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781472576125

1472576128

9781472576118

147257611X

9781472576149

1472576144

OCLC:

1004266609