Rebecca Adami

Women and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents the non-Western women delegates to the United Nations in 1945-1948 at the drafting of the UN Charter and the UDHR, and explores their arguments for women's rights and for a more inclusive language than "the Rights of Man" in these founding documents of the United Nations.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Research in Gender and History
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 229mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 278g
• ISBN-13: 9780367622787
• ISBN-10: 0367622785
• Artikelnr.: 69194058

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Adami is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Education, Stockholm University and Associate Researcher at SOAS University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A Counter Narrative to Earlier Research 1. The San Francisco Conference
A Call to All Women 2. A Charter Signed by Women? 3. The United Nations 1946
Will Women Have a Say? 4. The Commission on Human Rights
or the "Rights of Man"? 5. The Commission on the Status of Women
on Sisterhood 6. A Lack of Acknowledgement
"Men" Trumps "All Human Beings" 7. The Commission on Human Rights Pressured to Consider the Rights of Women 8. The Third Committee
Rights in the Private Realm 9. The Socialist Dissent
A Surprising Support for Women? 10. Is a Vote in the General Assembly a Vote for the People?. Epilogue: On Female Representation in the United Nations