Tracking the gender politics of the Millennium Development Goals: struggles for interpretive power in the international development agenda

Third World Quarterly

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 377-395

  Kabeer, Naila ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

civil society; gender and feminism; human rights; post Millennium Development Goals; United Nations

Indexed keywords

CIVIL SOCIETY; DEVELOPING WORLD; FEMINISM; GENDER RELATIONS; HUMAN RIGHTS; POLITICS; UNITED NATIONS;

VATICAN CITY STATE;

EID: 84928665706     PISSN: 01436597     EISSN: 13602241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2015.1016656     Document Type: Article

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