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.

Rebecca Adami is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Education, Stockholm University and Associate Researcher at SOAS University of London.

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