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Shaping a global women's agenda : women's NGOs and global governance, 1925-85
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Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, Karen Garner documents international women's history through the lens of the Western-led international organisations that defined and dominated women's ...
Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, Karen Garner documents international women's history through the lens of the Western-led international organisations that defined and dominated women's involvement in global politics from 1925-1985.
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- Creator
- Karen Garner
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- Language
- English
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- Paperback edition
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2013
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- xiii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780719088988, 0719088984
- OCLC
- ocn816158031
- Originally published: 2010.
- Women's NGOs and disarmament, 1925-40. The First World War and its aftermath -- Working for disarmament and peace -- The peace is threatened -- Fascism, Communism and war -- Women's NGOs and politics of war, 1940-70. Second World War activism and service -- Forging a role at the United Nations -- Allied post-war reconstruction projects -- The Cold War -- Women's NGO and the United Nations, 1970-85. Transforming the global development agenda -- International Women's Year -- Taking the world's 'women' seriously -- Concluding the UN Decade for women