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.

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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