Gender politics in global governance Book

From the grassroots to the global, women's movements are taking on new arenas, new goals and strategies, and in some cases a whole new vocabulary. International organizations, nonstate actors, regimes and norms, and a host of globalizing forces, offer women and their representatives new opportunities and obstacles. This volume draws together a range of research that looks at the gendered nature of the institutions, practices and discourses of global governance. The contributors describe the spaces women have carved out in international organizations, the strategies women's movements have employed to influence international politics, and the ways in which movement activism has contested gendered rules in global governance.