Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Fall 1999
Abstract
The amount of attention devoted to women and women's issues has increased dramatically in the last five decades throughout the world. In this article we examine the cultural construction of women that guided such action by analyzing texts that were produced and activities that were undertaken in relation to women by international organizations from 1945 through 1995. We show that the modernist principles of universalism, liberal individualism, and rationality provided the cultural framework for this global project. We compare the ways in which two issues important to women, education and genital mutilation, were constructed by global actors and the implications of this meaning making for action over time. Our analysis reveals an important link between the extent to which an issue is constructed to be consistent with the modernist principles and the extent to which it receives global attention.
Publication Title
Sociological Perspectives
Volume
42
Issue
3
First Page
481
Last Page
498
Required Publisher's Statement
Sociological Perspectives, published by University of California Press, Pacific Sociological Association
Published by: Sage Publications, Inc.
Article DOI: 10.2307/1389699
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1389699
Recommended Citation
Bradley, Karen and Berkovitch, Nitza, "4493 The Globalization of Women's Status: Consensus/Dissensus in the World Polity" (1999). Sociology. 1.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/sociology_facpubs/1
Subjects - Topical (LCSH)
Female circumcision--Government policy; Coeducation; Social status
Subjects - Names (LCNAF)
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979 December 18)
Genre/Form
articles
Type
Text
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
