Efforts to mainstream a gender perspective in global public policy have been prompted by
the proliferation of transnational networking among women's movements. Collaboration …

In 1995, over 30,000 women's rights advocates attended the United Nations (UN) Fourth
World Conference on Women and made a substantial difference in conference outcomes …

Facilitating critical reflection on the words and concepts used to write policy enables
practitioners to avoid unconsciously reproducing the different forms of oppression and …

This article links a theoretical debate within poststructural feminisms–whether feminist
politics can be pursued without hegemonic representations of women and gender–to the …

The transnational organizing of right-wing women is a wholly underexplored area of inquiry.
While Butler has documented the presence of pro-family organizations at the United Nations …

In August and September of 1995, the Fourth World Conference on Women was hosted in
Beijing, China by the United Nations (UN). The gathering was the largest UN conference …

At the Beijing+ meeting of the United Nations (UN) held in March in New York, the most
contested issues once again were sexual and reproductive health and rights, including …

Since 1983, REAL Women has been active in the backlash against what is perceived to be
the feminist agenda. For REAL Women's adherents, a feminist agenda is any political …

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and gender equality can be conceived of as a long-
lasting relationship given that NGOs have been taking up issues related to women's rights …

In October 2008, the House of Representatives in Indonesia passed the widely contested
anti-pornography bill, defying years of protest from women's groups, human rights activists …