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Friedman EJ. Womens Stud. Int. Forum 2003; 26(4): 313-331. |
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(Copyright © 2003, Elsevier Publishing) |
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Abstract |
In 1995, over 30,000 women's rights advocates attended the United Nations (UN) Fourth World Conference on Women and made a substantial difference in conference outcomes. However, advocates' achievements at their "own" conference was not the central gain of the 1990s. It was their success in "gendering the agenda" of the other global conferences of the 1990s: mainstreaming gender analysis into areas considered "gender-neutral" and prioritizing women's rights as integral to conference goals. However, the success of the transnational women's rights movement was accompanied by a major challenge: the development of a transnational conservative countermovement. To explain both the success and challenges of the movement, this article extends local/national social movement analysis to the transnational level. |