Women, Empires, and Body Politics At the United Nations, 19461975

Giusi Russo examines the United Nations’ gendered politics of colonialism and decolonization from its founding until the mid-1970s.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Women of the World: Visible and Invisible Bodies
2. Imperial Encounters and Occupied Bodies
3. Cold War, Competing Womanhood, and Bodies in the Microcosm
4. The Sacred Trust and the Body in Pain
5. Bodily Rituals and the Dialectic of Foreign and Local Voices 
6. Bodies in Captivity, Gender Equilibrium, and the Shift from Liberal Politics
7. Reproducing the Nation and the Right to Control One’s Destiny
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Giusi Russo is an assistant professor of history at Montgomery County Community College in Pennsylvania.

Summary

Giusi Russo examines the United Nations’ gendered politics of colonialism and decolonization from its founding until the mid-1970s.

Product details

• Authors: Giusi Russo
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2023
• EAN: 9781496234438
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-3443-8
• No. of pages: 306
• Series: Expanding Frontiers: Interdisc; Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories