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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"--

Introductory note: Learning journey for a feminist - Making women visible, recognizing women's achievements and demanding power to women / Torild Skard -- Preface: Women of the UN: Shifting the Narrative by Revealing Forgotten Voices / Fatima Sator and Elise Dietrichson -- Chapter 1: From Women's Rights to Human Rights: The Influence of Pan-American Feminism on the United Nations / Katherine Marino -- Chapter 2: The Latin American Women: How They Shaped the UN Charter and Why Southern Agency is Forgotten / Elise Dietrichson and Fatima Sator -- Chapter 3: Excavating Hidden Histories: Indian Women in the Early History of the United Nations / Khushi Singh Rathore -- Chapter 4: International Welfare Feminism: CSW Navigating Cold War Tensions 1949 / Rebecca Adami -- Chapter 5: Universal Human Rights for Women: UN Engagement with Traditional Abuses, 1948-1965 / Roland Burke -- Chapter 6: Feminism, Global Inequality and the 1975 Mexico City Conference / Aoife O'Donoghue and Adam Rowe -- Chapter 7: Who Wrote CEDAW? / Ellen Chesler -- Chapter 8: Were Children's Rights Ever a Feminist Project? / Linde Lindkvist -- Chapter 9: Creating UNSCR 1325: Women Who Served as Initiators, Drafters, and Strategists / Cornelia Weiss -- Chapter 10: Commentary: The Restorative Archeology of Knowledge about the role of Women in the History of the UN - Theoretical implications for International Relations / Rebecca Adami, Dan Plesch and Amitav Acharya.

The creation of the UN system during World War II is a largely unknown or forgotten story among contemporary decision makers, international relations specialists, and policy analysts. This book aims to recover the wartime history of the United Nations and explore how the forgotten past can shed light on a possible and more desirable future. To achieve this, each chapter takes three snapshots:"Then," the imaginative and transnational thinking about solutions to post-war problems demonstrated a realization that victory in WW II required an intergovernmental "system" with enough power and competence to work-that is, the UN was not established as a liberal plaything and public relations ploy but rather as a vital necessity for post-war order and prosperity."Now," which often seems a pale imitation of wartime thinking that nonetheless reflects a growing and widespread recognition of the fundamental disconnect between the nature of trans-boundary problems and current solutions seen as feasible by 193 UN member states."Next steps," or the collective wisdom about the range of new thinking and new institutions that, in fact, may well have antecedents in wartime thinking and experimentation and could be labelled blue-prints for a "third generation" of intergovernmental organizations. This work will be essential reading for all students and scholars of the United Nations, International Organizations and Global Governance