From the grassroots to the global, women's movements worldwide are taking on new arenas, new goals and strategies, and in some cases a whole new vocabulary. International organizations, nonstate actors, regimes and norms, and a host of globalizing forces offer women and their representatives new opportunities and obstacles. This volume draws together a wide range of exciting new research that looks at the gendered nature of the institutions, practices, and discourses of global governance. The contributors describe the spaces women have carved out in international organizations, the strategies women's movements have employed to influence international politics, and the ways in which movement activism has contested gendered rules in global governance. Out of a stimulating diversity of approaches, the common goal of empowering women resounds.

Mary K. Meyer is associate professor of political science at Eckerd College. Elisabeth PrYgl is assistant professor of international relations at Florida International University.

Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Gender Politics in Global GovernanceChapter 3Chapter I: Locating Women: Organizational Spaces in Global GovernanceChapter 4 Women Workers in the United Nations: From Margin to Mainstream?Chapter 5 United Nations Peacekeeping: Men's and Women's WorkChapter 6 Negotiating International Norms: The Inter-American Commission of Women and the Convention on Violence against WomenChapter 7 Gender and Transnational Democracy: The Case of the European UnionChapter 8 Nongovernmental Organizations: An Alternative Power Base for Women?Chapter 9Chapter II: Shaping Agendas: Feminist Strategies in Global GovernanceChapter 10 The Women?s International League for Peace and Freedom: Organizing Women for Peace in the War SystemChapter 11 International Women's Activism and the 1994 Cairo Population ConferenceChapter 12 Shaping the Human Rights Agenda: The Case of Violence against WomenChapter 13 Realizing Women's Human Rights: Nongovernmental Organizations and the United Nations Treaty BodiesChapter 14 The United Nations Women's Conferences and Feminist PoliticsChapter 15Chapter III: Contesting Language: Gendered Rules in Global GovernanceChapter 16 What Is a Worker? Gender, Global Restructuring, and the ILO Convention on HomeworkChapter 17 Women in the Neoliberal FrameChapter 18 An Ecofeminist Critique of the International Economic StructureChapter 19 Trafficking in Women: Alternate Migration or Modern Slave Trade?Chapter 20 Gender Construction and the Protection Mandate of the UNHCR: Responses from Guatemalan WomenChapter 21 Of Roots, Leaves, and Trees: Gender, Social Movements, and Global GovernanceChapter 22 Works CitedChapter 23 Appendix: The United Nations SystemChapter 24 Index