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Participants and scholars appraise the successes and failures of women's agendas at the UN and international conferences for equality and full partnership.

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments Forerunners in Women's Quest for Partnership by Margaret E. Galey Women Find a Place by Margaret E. Galey International Women's Year (IWY) and the Conference on IWY by Virginia R. Allan, Margaret E. Galey, and Mildred E. Persinger Losing the Battle/Winning the War: International Politics, Women's Issues, and the 1980 Mid-Decade Conference by Jane S. Jaquette Women and Power: The Nairobi Conference, 1985 by Charlotte G. Patton The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (The Women's Convention) by Arvonne S. Fraser The Politics of Women and Development by Margaret Snyder Equality for Women in the United Nations Secretariat by Kristen Timothy Women's International Nongovernmental Organizations at the United Nations by Carolyn M. Stephenson Specialized Agencies and the World Bank by Anne Winslow Conclusion Appendices Selected Bibliography Index

About the Author

ANNE WINSLOW was formerly editor-in-chief and director of Publications at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Subsequently she served as training officer for the United Nations Institute for Research and Training. Her publications include three chapters in a 1991 Unitar volume, The United Nations System at Geneva, and a coauthor with Carol Lubin of Social Justice for Women: The International Labor Organization and Women (1990).

Reviews

"This book provides a valuable collection of data and important analytical insights on the nature of relations between women's organizations from various geographical regions within the United Nations....[It] provides an excellent illustration of how feminist organizing by women within the UN has transformed UN politics."-Feminist Collections

?This book provides a valuable collection of data and important analytical insights on the nature of relations between women's organizations from various geographical regions within the United Nations....[It] provides an excellent illustration of how feminist organizing by women within the UN has transformed UN politics.?-Feminist Collections