Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Adami, Rebecca, author

Title Women and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights / by Rebecca Adami
Edition 1st
Published London : Routledge, 2018

Copies

Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Series Routledge research in gender and history ; 32
Contents <P>Introduction: A Counter Narrative to Earlier Research </P><P></P><P>1. The San Francisco Conference -- A Call to All Women </P><P></P><P>2. A Charter Signed by Women?</P><P></P><P>3. The United Nations 1946 -- Will Women Have a Say?</P><P></P><P>4. The Commission on Human Rights -- or the "Rights of Man"? </P><P></P><P>5. The Commission on the Status of Women -- on Sisterhood</P><P></P><P>6. A Lack of Acknowledgement -- "Men" Trumps "All Human Beings"</P><P></P><P>7. The Commission on Human Rights Pressured to Consider the Rights of Women </P><P></P><P>8. The Third Committee -- Rights in the Private Realm </P><P></P><P>9. The Socialist Dissent -- A Surprising Support for Women? </P><P></P><P>10. Is a Vote in the General Assembly a Vote for the People? </P><P></P><P>Epilogue: On Female Representation in the United Nations </P>
Summary Who were the non-Western women delegates who took part in the drafting of the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) from 1945-1948? Which member states did these women represent, and in what ways did they push for a more inclusive language than "the rights of Man" in the texts? This book provides a gendered historical narrative of human rights from the San Francisco Conference in 1945 to the final vote of the UDHR in the United Nations General Assembly in December 1948. It highlights the contributions by Latin American feminist delegates, and the prominent non-Western female representatives from new member states of the UN
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes CIP data; resource not viewed
Subject United Nations. General Assembly. Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- History
United Nations Human Rights Council.
SUBJECT United Nations Human Rights Council fast
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations. General Assembly) fast
Subject Women (International law) -- History
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Women's rights.
Women's Rights
Women (International law)
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Women's rights
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780429795527
0429795521
9780429795534
042979553X
9780429795510
0429795513
9780429437939
0429437935