Gender and Foreign Policy in the Clinton Administration
  • 2013/333 pages
  • A FirstForumPress Book

Gender and Foreign Policy in the Clinton Administration

Karen Garner
Hardcover: $72.00
ISBN: 978-1-935049-60-9
Ebook: $72.00
ISBN: 978-1-935049-97-5
Though recent US government attention to global women's rights and empowerment is often presented as a new phenomenon, Karen Garner argues that nearly two decades ago the Clinton administration broke barriers to challenge women's unequal status vis-à-vis men around the world and to incorporate their needs into US foreign policy and aid programs.

Garner draws on a wide range of primary sources, including interviews with government officials and feminist activists who worked with the administration, to present a persuasive account of the emergence, evolution, and legacy of US global gender policy in the 1990s.
Karen Garner is associate professor of history and women's studies at SUNY Empire State College. She is the author of Shaping a Global Women’s Agenda: Women's NGOs and Global Governance, 1925–85 and Precious Fire: Maud Russell and the Chinese Revolution.