Table of Contents

Contents
List of Boxes and Tables
Series Editors' ForewordLouis Emmerij, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. Weiss
ForewordAmartya Sen
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Women, Development, and Equality: History as Inconclusive Dialogue
1. Setting the Stage for Equality, 1945–1965
2. Inscribing Development into Rights, 1966–1975
3. Questioning Development Paradigms, 1976–1985
4. Development as if Women Mattered, 1986–1995
5. Lessons from the UN's Sixth Decade, 1996–2005
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
About the United Nations Intellectual History Project

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Shows how women's contributions have changed and shaped development thought and practice at the UN.

About the Author

Devaki Jain has lectured in economics at Delhi University and was a founding member of the Indian Association of Women's Studies. She advised the National Commission on Women of the Government of India and was a member of Julius Nyerere's South Commission. Her academic research and advocacy, influenced largely by Gandhian philosophy, have focused on issues of women's rights, democratic decentralization, and people-centered development. Devaki Jain lives in Bangalore, India.

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"Devaki Jain opens the doors of the United Nations and shows how it has changed the female half of the worldoand vice versa. Women, Development, and the UN is a book that every global citizen, government leader, journalist, academic, and self-respecting woman should read." oGloria Steinem "Devaki Jain's book nurtures your optimism in this terrible war-torn decade by describing how women succeeded in empowering both themselves and the United Nations to work toward a global leadership inspired by human dignity." oFatema Mernissi