Feminist Strategies in International Governance

The struggle for women’s rights and to overcome gender oppression has long engaged the efforts of inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations. Feminist Strategies in International Governance provides a new introduction to the contemporary forms of this struggle. It brings together the voices of academics and practitioners to reflect in particular on the effectiveness of human rights strategies and gender mainstreaming. It covers three international issue areas in which feminists currently seek change: women’s human rights and violence against women; the participation of women in peace-making and their protection during conflict; and the gendered effects of development, economic and financial governance.

The book combines a critical reflection on the current state of feminist politics with an introduction to urgent issues on the contemporary international agenda. In addition, the book draws on innovative conceptualizations from constructivism in international relations, legal anthropology and discourse theory to provide new framings of current feminist struggles.

Offering an accessible guide to the engendering of international governance and examining the challenges for international feminist politics in the future, this work will be of great interest to students and scholars of international organizations, gender politics and global governance.

Gulay Caglar is a research fellow in the Division of "Gender and Globalization" at the Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany. Her research focuses on gender politics in global economic governance.

Elisabeth Prugl is Professor of International Relations at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Her research focuses on gender politics and international organizations.

Susanne Zwingel is Associate Professor of Politics at the State University of New York in Potsdam, NY. Her research focuses on human rights and gender in global governance.