how women transformed international development
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Fraser, Arvonne > (ed.)
- Creator
- Tinker, Irene > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Gachukia, Eddah
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B5715 - B
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenbewegingen, wereldvrouwenconferenties, ontwikkelingslanden, VN, Wereldbank, ngo's, internationale organisaties, internationale betrekkingen, bundel
- Description
- In this book women from around the world tell how they fought to ensure that the political and economic changes in the developing world would benefit women as well as men. Women helped to create one of the most important social movements of the last century—the global women’s movement. This movement saw a rare collaboration between women from the global North and the global South, as they worked together to alter the established order both inside the UN and in NGOs, national and local governments, universities, think tanks, and on-the-ground development projects. .In these testimonies, a distinguished group of 27 pioneering women from 12 countries tell their own stories, revealing the moments when they realized that they could challenge the received wisdom of the day, and the struggles involved in turning their ideas into actions. These accounts come from women involved in creating the four major UN conferences on women held from 1975 to 1995, women scholars, women in institutions that provide development funds, and women in development agencies.