Women and gender in international history : theory and practice /
"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 histor...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2018.
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| Series: | New approaches to international history.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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."--Bloomsbury Publishing |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 276 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781472576149 1472576144 9781472576132 1472576136 9781474205917 1474205917 9781472576125 1472576128 147257611X 9781472576118 |
| DOI: | 10.5040/9781474205917 |