Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946-1975

Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 19461975 tells the story of how womens bodies were at the center of the international politics of womens rights in the postwar period. Giusi Russo focuses on the United Nation Commission on the Status of Women and its multiple interactions with the colonial and postcolonial worlds, showing how-depending on the setting and the inquiry-liberal...