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norms and hierarchies in international society
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Towns, Ann E.
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- WER 6 2010 - B
- Thesaurus
- politieke participatie, vrouwenkiesrecht, vrouwenbewegingen, internationale organisaties, VN, quota, wetgeving, statistiek
- Description
- Momentous changes in the relation between women and the state have advanced women's status around the globe. Women were barred from public affairs a century ago, yet almost every state now recognizes equal voting rights and exhibits a national policy bureau for the advancement of women. Sex quotas for national legislatures are increasingly common.The author explains these changes by providing a novel account of how norms work in international society. She argues that norms don't just provide standards for states, they rank them, providing comparative judgments which place states in hierarchical social orders. This focus on the link between norms and ranking hierarchies helps to account better for how a new policy, such as equality for women in public life, is spread around the world.
activism, advocacy, and governance in the twenty-first century
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hawkesworth, Mary
- Publish Year
- 2012
- Shelfmark
- WER 6 2012 - B
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- politieke participatie, burgerschap, identiteit, etniciteit, internet, quota, politici, ngo's, gelijke behandeling, VN, CEDAW Treaty for the Rights of Women, internationale organisaties
- Description
- This book provides an overview of women’s political activism, comparing formal and informal channels of power from official institutions of state to grassroots mobilizations and Internet campaigns. Illuminating the politics of identity enmeshed in local, national, and global gender orders, this book explores women's creation of national and international global citizenshipand presents challenges facing racial and gender justice.
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- Book/Boek
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- map: Vrouwenorganisaties 2004
- Description
- Background information on the Socialist International Women, the international organisation of the women's organisations of the socialist, social democratic and labour parties affiliated to the Socialist International. With a list of member organisations, a brief history, and member parties that have introduced a quota system for women.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Jaquette, Jane S. > [ed]
- Contributor
- Montoya, Gabriela
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- LAT 6 2009
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- vrouwenbewegingen, feminisme, politiek, economie, quota, verkiezingen, geweld, huiselijk geweld, vrouwenorganisaties, internationale organisaties, wereldvrouwenconferenties, VN, Latijns-Amerika, bundel
- Description
- This collection examines how women’s movements have responded to the political, economic, and social changes of the last twenty years. The essays focus on the various strategies women’s movements have adopted and assess their successes and failures. The book is organized around three broad topics. The first, women’s access to political power at the national level, is addressed by essays on the election of Michelle Bachelet in Chile, gender quotas in Argentina and Brazil, and the responses of the women’s movement to the “Bolivarian revolution” in Venezuela. The second topic, the use of legal strategies, is taken up in essays on women’s rights across the board in Argentina, violence against women in Brazil, and gender in the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Peru. Finally, the international impact of Latin American feminists is explored through an account of their participation in the World Social Forum, an assessment of a Chilean-led project carried out by women’s organizations in several countries to hold governments to the promises they made at international conferences in Cairo and Beijing, and an account of cross-border organizing to address femicides and domestic abuse in the Juárez-El Paso border region. Jane S. Jaquette provides the historical and political context of women’s movement activism in her introduction, and concludes the volume by engaging contemporary debates about feminism, civil society, and democracy.
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