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

Giusi Rossi discusses the story of how women’s bodies were at the center of the international politics of women’s 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, imperial, and transnational feminisms could coexist.

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Image courtesy of interviewee. July 20, 2023

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