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Author Jain, Devaki, 1933-

Title Women, development, and the UN [electronic resource] : a sixty-year quest for equality and justice / Devaki Jain ; foreword by Amartya Sen.

Imprint Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005.

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Description xxiv, 230 p.
Series United Nations intellectual history project
United Nations intellectual history project (Series)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-210) and index.
Contents Introduction: Women, development, and equality : history as inconclusive dialogue -- Setting the stage for equality, 1945-1965 -- Inscribing development into rights, 1966-1975 -- Questioning development paradigms, 1976-1985 -- Development as if women mattered, 1986-1995 -- Lessons from the UN's sixth decade, 1996-2005.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject United Nations.
Women in development -- International cooperation -- History.
Women's rights -- International cooperation -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0253346975 (cloth : alk. paper)
0253218195 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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