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Syro-Lebanese Women’s Transnational and International Collaborations at the League of Nations

Syro-Lebanese Women’s Transnational and International Collaborations at the League of Nations Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/jmews/article-pdf/17/3/479/1169821/479robinson.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 THIRD S PACE Roundtab l e: Gendered T r ansnatio nalisms in the M iddle E ast and N orth Africa Syro-Lebanese Women’s Transnational and International Collaborations at the League of Nations NO VA R O BINS ON ost people associate the League of Nations with failure. Founded after World M War I, the organization failed to forestall another global war,which was among its animating objectives. However, the League did lay the groundwork for the inter- national system in force today. The League of Nations’ integration of women’srights into the framework of international governance is among its most important leg- acies. In the 1920s “women’srights” encompassed a woman’s right to own property, to an education, to a safe work environment, and to a nationality. Throughout the 1920s the League’s leaders resisted calls from international women’s organizations to internationalize women’s rights, stating that women’s issues were national con- cerns rather than international ones. After the Hague Conference on the Codifica- tion of International Law in 1930 revealed that sometimes a woman’s marriage to a nonnational rendered her nationless, some officials in the Secretariat agreed that certain aspects of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Duke University Press

Syro-Lebanese Women’s Transnational and International Collaborations at the League of Nations

Robinson, Nova
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies , Volume 17 (3) – Nov 1, 2021
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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/jmews/article-pdf/17/3/479/1169821/479robinson.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 THIRD S PACE Roundtab l e: Gendered T r ansnatio nalisms in the M iddle E ast and N orth Africa Syro-Lebanese Women’s Transnational and International Collaborations at the League of Nations NO VA R O BINS ON ost people associate the League of Nations with failure. Founded after World M War I, the organization failed to forestall another global war,which was among its animating objectives. However, the League did lay the groundwork for the inter- national system in force today. The League of Nations’ integration of women’srights into the framework of international governance is among its most important leg- acies. In the 1920s “women’srights” encompassed a woman’s right to own property, to an education, to a safe work environment, and to a nationality. Throughout the 1920s the League’s leaders resisted calls from international women’s organizations to internationalize women’s rights, stating that women’s issues were national con- cerns rather than international ones. After the Hague Conference on the Codifica- tion of International Law in 1930 revealed that sometimes a woman’s marriage to a nonnational rendered her nationless, some officials in the Secretariat agreed that certain aspects of the

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Published: Nov 1, 2021

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    DuBois, Ellen Carol Emrani, Haleh
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    Eisenberg, Jaci
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    Pedersen, Susan
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