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This book provides a critical history of influential women in the
United Nations and seeks to inspire empowerment with role models
from bygone eras. The women whose voices this book presents helped
shape UN conventions, declarations, and policies with relevance to
the international human rights of women throughout the world today.
From the founding of the UN up until the Latin American feminist
movements that pushed for gender equality in the UN Charter, and
the Security Council Resolutions on the role of women in peace and
conflict, the volume reflects on how women delegates from different
parts of the world have negotiated and disagreed on human rights
issues related to gender within the UN throughout time. In doing so
it sheds new light on how these hidden historical narratives enrich
theoretical studies in international relations and global agency
today. In view of contemporary feminist and postmodern critiques of
the origin of human rights, uncovering women's history of the
United Nations from both Southern and Western perspectives allows
us to consider questions of feminism and agency in international
relations afresh. With contributions from leading scholars and
practitioners of law, diplomacy, history, and development studies,
and brought together by a theoretical commentary by the Editors,
Women and the UN will appeal to anyone whose research covers human
rights, gender equality, international development, or the history
of civil society. The Open Access version of this book, available
at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003036708, has been
made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non
Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
This book provides a critical history of influential women in the
United Nations and seeks to inspire empowerment with role models
from bygone eras. The women whose voices this book presents helped
shape UN conventions, declarations, and policies with relevance to
the international human rights of women throughout the world today.
From the founding of the UN up until the Latin American feminist
movements that pushed for gender equality in the UN Charter, and
the Security Council Resolutions on the role of women in peace and
conflict, the volume reflects on how women delegates from different
parts of the world have negotiated and disagreed on human rights
issues related to gender within the UN throughout time. In doing so
it sheds new light on how these hidden historical narratives enrich
theoretical studies in international relations and global agency
today. In view of contemporary feminist and postmodern critiques of
the origin of human rights, uncovering women's history of the
United Nations from both Southern and Western perspectives allows
us to consider questions of feminism and agency in international
relations afresh. With contributions from leading scholars and
practitioners of law, diplomacy, history, and development studies,
and brought together by a theoretical commentary by the Editors,
Women and the UN will appeal to anyone whose research covers human
rights, gender equality, international development, or the history
of civil society. The Open Access version of this book, available
at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003036708, has been
made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non
Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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.
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.
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