The Diplomatic History of Global Women's Rights: The British Foreign Office and International Women's Year, 1975
The Diplomatic History of Global Women's Rights: The British Foreign Office and International Women's Year, 1975
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全球妇女权利的外交史：英国外交部和国际妇女年，1975
DOI：
10.1177/0022009415577002
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发表时间：
2015
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0.7
通讯作者：
McCarthy H
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McCarthy H
本文探讨了英国外交部在 1975 年参与国际妇女年 (IWY)，这一活动被视为跨国女权运动历史上的里程碑，也是妇女地位成为发展、人权和全球安全主流思维一部分的时刻。许多关于 IWY 的现有文献都集中讨论非国家行为者的作用，特别是活跃在联合国 (UN) 的妇女非政府组织。相比之下，本文将镜头转向国家行为体，以探究外交官、政治家和外交部在二十世纪末将“妇女”构建为全球政治主体的过程中发挥了什么作用。研究发现，外交部对 IWY 的解读是通过冷战强权政治和后殖民斗争的棱镜折射出来的。性别政治本质上被概念化为这些更大的意识形态斗争的代表，这种方法可以追溯到第二次世界大战后英国半秘密的反共宣传运动。相比之下，英国妇女非政府组织坚持认为，妇女的行动主义应该具有其自身的独立动力，想象着跨越政治、社会和经济分歧的基于性别的团结的可能性。 IWY 和随后的联合国妇女十年缓和了这种理想主义，并使国际妇女运动走上政治学习曲线。但是，正如文章将暗示的那样，20 世纪 70 年代也是国家精英被迫面对新型全球政治的时刻，其对外交政策和外交关系行为的影响只有进一步细致的档案研究才能充分揭示。
This article explores the British Foreign Office's engagement with International Women's Year (IWY) in 1975, an event which has been viewed as a milestone in histories of transnational feminist activism, and a moment when the status of women became part of mainstream thinking about development, human rights and global security. Much of the existing literature on IWY dwells on the role of non-state actors, especially women's NGOs active at the United Nations (UN). In contrast, this article shifts the lens on to state actors, in order to ask what role diplomats, politicians and ministries of foreign affairs played in the construction of ‘women’ as a global political subject in the late twentieth century. It finds that the Foreign Office's reading of IWY was refracted through the prism of Cold War power politics and postcolonial struggles. Gender politics was conceptualised as essentially a proxy for these larger ideological battles, an approach dating back to Britain's semi-clandestine anti-communist propaganda campaigns after the Second World War. British women's NGOs, by contrast, insisted that women's activism should be accorded an independent dynamic of its own, imagining the possibilities of gender-based solidarities operating across political, social and economic divides. IWY and the subsequent UN Decade for Women tempered this idealism and set the international women's movement on a political learning curve. But, as the article will suggest, the 1970s was also a moment when state elites were forced to confront a new kind of global politics, the repercussions of which for the conduct of foreign policy and diplomatic relations only further fine-grained archival research can fully reveal.
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发表时间：
1987
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作者：
A. Fraser
通讯作者：
A. Fraser