Women and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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.

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