Research Guides: Women and Global Diplomacy: From Peace Movements to the United Nations: Finding Aids and Bibliographies

Finding Aids and Bibliographies

This page is a collection of all documents, articles, books, and links used on this research guide. It also features finding aids from our archives, to help researchers find more information when visiting the archives.

Finding Aids

"A Repertoire of League Serial Documents, 1919-1947" (1973) Ghebali & Ghebali (ICO)
Chapter "Intellectual Cooperation Organization" in Victor-Yves Ghebali and Catherine Ghebali. A Repertoire of League Serial Documents, 1919-1947/ Repertoire des Series de documents de la Societe des Nations 1919-1947. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana, 1973. 2 vols.
Health, Social and Opium Sections 1928-1946 and Section Files, p. 235-317
Health and Social Questions Section 1919-1927

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United Nations Treaty Collection This link opens in a new window
The United Nations Treaty Collection contains information regarding the activities of the Treaty Section of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs. It includes Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General; United Nations Treaty Series Online; and the League of Nations Treaty Series; along with publications and documents prepared by the Treaty Section aimed at providing guidance and information.

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UNODA's (UN Office for Disarmament Affairs) specialized archive provides quick and direct access to United Nations disarmament-related documents in one convenient location. It includes special sessions final documents and reports; Disarmament Commission guidelines and treaty review declarations.
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The Yearbook is the principal reference work of the United Nations and provides a detailed overview of the Organization's activities. Each Yearbook is fully indexed and includes all major General Assembly, Security Council and Economic and Social Council resolutions. The complete collection (1946-2014) is available here. Search options include full text through the complete collection or a specific period.
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This collection contains exact reproductions of major United Nations legal publications, including the complete collection of the United Nations Treaty Series, the League of Nations Treaty Series, the Monthly Statement of Treaties & International Agreements, UNCITRAL Publications, UNIDIR Publications, the United Nations Legislative Series and much more.
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Featured Books

Bertha von Suttner (1843-1914) and Other Women in Pursuit of Peace by UN Office at Geneva Library and the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations
Call Number: 396:92 S967
Publication Date: 1993
Charter of the United Nations: report on the results of the San Francisco conference by United States delegation to the United Nations conference on international organization (San Francisco: 1945)
Call Number: 341.271 U5795
Publication Date: 1945
Continuous Mediation Without Armistice; a Development of the Idea of a Continuous Conference of Neutral Nations, Which Has Occurred Independently to Others Besides the Author of the Pamphlet by Julia Grace B. 1881 Wales (Created by); Woman's Peace Party (Created by)
ISBN: 9781361431733
Publication Date: 2016-08-25
Convention Against Discrimination in Education by UNESCO General Conference
Call Number: ST/HR/1/Rev.6
Publication Date: 2002
Covenant of the League of Nations by The League of Nations
Call Number: 341.253 L433
ISBN: 9780585006338
Publication Date: 1919
A Fair World for All; the Meaning of the Declaration of Human Rights by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
ISBN: 1152460560
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
The Future of the Women's Movement by Helena M. (Helena Maria) 1864 Swanwick (Created by)
ISBN: 9781376242461
Publication Date: 2017-08-24
Käthe Kollwitz by Elizabeth Prelinger; Alessandra Comini (Contribution by); Hildegard Bachert (Contribution by)
ISBN: 0894681702
Publication Date: 1992-05-01
Lay down Your Arms by Bertha von Suttner
ISBN: 144371478X
Publication Date: 2008-08-01
The League of Nations' Work on Social Issues by Edited by Magaly Rodríguez García, Davide Rodogno, Liat Kozma
Call Number: 16.0.1 UN/LIB/2015/129
ISBN: 9789210577021
Publication Date: 2016
Le Féminisme by Ghenia Avril de Sainte-Croix
ISBN: 9781113128287
Publication Date: 2009-07-11
Lobbying the League: women's international organizations and the League of Nations by Carol Ann Miller
Call Number: 341.251 M647
Publication Date: 1992
Lobbying the League: women's international organizations and the League of Nations by Carol Ann Miller
Call Number: 341.251 M647
Publication Date: 1992
Madwomen by Gabriela Mistral; Randall Couch
ISBN: 9780226531892
A schoolteacher whose poetry catapulted her to early fame in her native Chile and an international diplomat whose boundary-defying sexuality still challenges scholars, Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is one of the most important and enigmatic figures in Latin American literature of the last century. The "Locas mujeres" poems collected here are among Mistral's most complex and compelling, exploring facets of the self "in extremis" poems marked by the wound of blazing catastrophe and its aftermath of mourning.
Peace and Bread in Time of War by Jane Addams; Katherine Joslin (Introduction by)
ISBN: 9780252070938
Publication Date: 2002-07-24
Deals with the author's thoughts on pacifism. Turning away from the details of the war itself, the author relies on memory and introspection in this autobiographical portrayal of efforts to secure peace during the Great War.
Trafficking in Women (1924-1926) by United Nations Publications (Editor); Jean-Michel Chaumont (Editor); Magaly Rodriquez Garcâa (Editor); Paul Servais (Editor); United Nations Staff
ISBN: 9789211015010
This book provides a transcription of the reports written by undercover agent Paul Kinsie for the League of Nations Special Body of Experts on Traffic in Women and Children in the mid-1920s. Kinsie visited more than forty cities and produced hundreds of reports in which his contacts with prostitutes, brothel owners, madams, pimps and procurers are described in detail. For a proper contextualization of the reports, scholars from around the world were asked to provide short introductions to the situation with regard to prostitution in each city that was visited.
The unfinished story of women and the United Nations by Hilkka Pietilè; United Nations
ISBN: 9789211011791
Publication Date: 2009-02-19
This book covers more than eighty-five years of history between women and inter-governmental organisations. Unrecorded by history and untold by the media, this book looks at the success of women within the League of Nations and the United Nations, for the advancement and empowerment of women, especially in the 30 years since the first UN World Conference on Women in Mexico City in 1975.
Women's Rights and Human Rights by Patricia Grimshaw (Editor); Katie Holmes (Editor); Marilyn Lake (Editor)
ISBN: 0333801954
Publication Date: 2001-03-20
This international collection of historical work explores the breadth and creativity of women's struggles for human rights, citizenship and social justice across the world. It brings together twenty contributions by scholars in women's history, whose work reflects the global reach of the International Federation for Research in Women's History. In addition to presenting studies by well known scholars in the United States and Europe, the book is distinctive in also bringing the work of scholars from regions such as South and East Asia and the Pacific to the attention of an international audience.
Women and the United Nations : speeches delivered at a conference in honor of Eleanor Roosevelt and commemorating International Women's Day and the 50th anniversary of the United Nations, United Nations Trusteeship Council Chamber, March 14, 1995. by Conference on Women and the United Nations, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
Call Number: 396:063 C735 1995
Publication Date: 1995
Women Police, a Study of the Development and Status of the Women Police Movement by Chloe Owings
ISBN: 9780875850283
Publication Date: 1969-03-01
Woman and the New Race by Margaret Sanger
ISBN: 9781366453266
Publication Date: 2017-03-10
The creators of over-population are the women, who, while wringing their hands over each fresh horror, submit anew to their task of producing the multitudes who will bring about the next tragedy of civilization. While unknowingly laying the foundations of tyrannies and providing the human tinder for racial conflagrations, woman was also unknowingly creating slums, filling asylums with insane, and institutions with other defectives. She was replenishing the ranks of the prostitutes, furnishing grist for the criminal courts and inmates for prisons.
Law triumphant: the opening of the book of the law & the miracle of Geneva by Violet Oakley
Call Number: 341.251 XO11 LO
Publication Date: 1933
A collection of portraits drawn by Oakley of the various members of the League of Nations, along with visitors to the League.

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Australia's authenticated copy in the digital archive "Documenting a Democracy."
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The Archive Group is composed of the International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation (IICI) fonds.

Digitized Documents

Jane Addams Opening Speech
"Letter from Mary A. Dingman: Disarmament Committee of the Women’s Int'l" (1932)
Letter from Mary A. Dingman, President of the Disarmament Committee of the Women’s International Organisations. Geneva, March 15, 1932. LON, R2407-7a-36301-31255
"Moral Disarmament. Text Adopted by the Moral Disarmament Committte (...)" (1933) "Moral Disarmament. Text Adopted by the Moral Disarmament Committte of the Disarmament Conference."
"Correspondence with Dr. James T. Shotwell" (1933) "Moral Disarmament. Correspondence with Dr. James T. Shotwell", (1933).
"Dezarmarea Morală: Le Désarmement Moral" (1933) Dezarmarea Morală: Le Désarmement Moral, Constantin Kiriţescu. "Editura Cartea Românească", Bucareşti, 1933. The PDF contains only the cover pages and the last page.
Book of traffickers
Photographs and descriptions of traffickers and prostitutes. Compiled from a mission to Cuba.
Slave market news full pamphlet
Speech by Mlle. Erkens, Chief Inspector of Police at Hamburg on the employment of women police

Women and Global Diplomacy: From Peace Movements to the United Nations