Women and Peace - Feminist Visions of Global Security

Preface

1. Introduction: A Decade for Difference

2. Negative Peace: The Continuum of Violence

3. Positive Peace: Economic and Social Justice

4. Women's Roles in the Politics and Conceptualization of Peace

5. Women's Visions of Peace: Images of Global Security

Appendix 1. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Excerpts)

Appendix 2. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (Excerpts)

Appendix 3. United Nations Agencies Concerned with Women's Issues

Appendix 4. Nongovernmental Organizations and Institutes Concerned with Women and Global Issues

Appendix 5. Selected Bibliography on Women and Global Security Issues

Notes

References

Index

About the author

Betty A. Reardon is Director of the Peace Education Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Long active in a number of international organizations and movements, she has served on the Council of the International Peace Research Association, the Council of the University for Peace, and the International Jury for the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education. Her previous publications are in the areas of women's issues, human rights, alternative security systems, and teaching and learning the skills of peacemaking.

Product details

• Authors: Betty Reardon, Betty A Reardon, Betty A. Reardon
• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.1993
• EAN: 9780791414002
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-1400-2
• No. of pages: 220
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 365 g
• Series: Suny Series, Global Conflict a
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories