Women and the UN:A New History of Women’s Inteational Human Rights (Routledge Explorations in Development Studies)

by: Rebecca Adami (Editor),Dan Plesch (Editor)

Publisher: Routledge

Edition: 1st

Publication Date: 2021/7/29

Language: English

Print Length: 174 pages

ISBN-10: 0367478234

ISBN-13: 9780367478230

Book Description

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 inteational 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 inteational relations and global agency today. In view of contemporary feminist and postmode critiques of the origin of human rights, uncovering women’s history of the United Nations from both Southe and Weste perspectives allows us to consider questions of feminism and agency in inteational 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, inteational development, or the history of civil society.The Open Access version of this book, available athttp://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003036708, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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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 inteational 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 inteational relations and global agency today. In view of contemporary feminist and postmode critiques of the origin of human rights, uncovering women’s history of the United Nations from both Southe and Weste perspectives allows us to consider questions of feminism and agency in inteational 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, inteational development, or the history of civil society.The Open Access version of this book, available athttp://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003036708, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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