Women and Gender in International History: Theory and Practice

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Series Editor Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
	Key concepts
	References for further study
	Web resources
	Bibliography
Chapter 2: Women, gender, and IR and critical theories
	Key concepts
	Introduction
	Liberalism
	Realism
	Neoliberalism
	Constructivism
	Critical feminist IR theory
	Feminist foreign policy
	Summing up
	References for further study
	Web resources
	Bibliography
Chapter 3: Women, gender, and war
	Key concepts
	Introduction
	Women, gender, and the First World War
	Women, gender, and the Second World War
	Women, gender, and the Cold War
	Women, gender, and the Bosnian War
	Summing up
	References for further study
	Web resources
	Bibliography
Chapter 4: Women, gender, and intergovernmental organizations
	Key concepts
	Introduction
	Women, gender, and the League of Nations
	Women, gender, and the United Nations, 1940s–60s
	The UN Conferences on Women 1975, 1980, 1985, and 1995
	Women, gender, and the European Union
	Women, gender, and UNSCR 1325
	Summing up
	References for further study
	Web resources
	Bibliography
Chapter 5: Women, gender, and global development
	Key concepts
	Introduction
	Women, gender, and development in the League of Nations era
	Women, gender, and post–Second World War modernization, 1945–60s
	Women, gender, and development, 1970s–80s
	Women, gender, and development, 1990s–2000s
	Summing up
	References for further study
	Web resources
	Bibliography
Chapter 6: Women, gender, and government leadership
	Key concepts
	Introduction
	Small numbers of women in elite leadership
	Gender and elite leadership
	Formal and informal barriers to women’s leadership
	Feminist strategies to overcome barriers
	Women in elite leadership positions
	Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India, 1966–77, 1980–84 (assassinated in 1984)
	Margaret Thatcher, prime minister of the UK, 1979–90
	Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia, 2006–17
	Michelle Bachelet Jeria, president of Chile 2006–10, first director of UN Women 2010–13; president of Chile 2014–present
	Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, 2005–present
	Summing up
	Notes
	References for further study
	Web resources
	Bibliography
Chapter 7: Women, gender, and diplomacy
	Key concepts
	Introduction
	Women, gender, and diplomacy during the League of Nations era
	Women, gender, and diplomacy at the United Nations
	The delayed advance of the woman diplomat in the United States and Great Britain
	Women, gender, and diplomatic relations with Iran
	Summing up
	References for further study
	Web resources
	Bibliography
Index