Women and the UN : a new history of women's international human rights / edited by Rebecca Adami and Dan Plesch.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introductory note Learning journey for a feminist: Making women visible, recognizing women’s achievements, and demanding power to women .-- Chapter 1: From women’s rights to human rights: The influence of Pan-American feminism on the United Nations .-- Chapter 2: The Latin American women: How they shaped the UN Charter and why Southern agency is forgotten .-- Chapter 3: Excavating hidden histories: Indian women in the early history of the United Nations .-- Chapter 4: International welfare feminism: CSW navigating cold war tensions 1949 .-- Chapter 5: Universal human rights for women: UN engagement with traditional abuses, 1948–1965 .-- Chapter 6: Feminism, global inequality, and the 1975 Mexico city conference .-- Chapter 7: Who wrote CEDAW? .-- Chapter 8: Were children’s rights ever a feminist project? .-- Chapter 9: Creating UNSCR 1325: Women who served as initiators, drafters, and strategists .-- Chapter 10: Commentary: The restorative archeology of knowledge about the role of women in the history of the UN – Theoretical implications for international relations.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.