Rebecca AdamiAssociate Professor · Stockholm University
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Published books
Open access
Women and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Women and the UDHR

Dedicated to any woman or girl who aspires to reach higher.

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Women and the UN: A New History of Women's International Human Rights
Women and the UN

A critical history of women shaping human rights at the United Nations.

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The Rights of the Child: Legal, Political and Ethical Challenges
The Rights of the Child

Legal, political and ethical challenges to realise children's rights.

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Childism, Intersectionality and the Rights of the Child: The Myth of a Happy Childhood
Childism and Intersectionality

On discrimination against children.

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2025Essay
2025
Interdisciplinarity in Higher Education: Challenges and Possible Pedagogical Gains

Stockholm University, Centre for the Advancement of University Teaching · Human Rights Education

Report
2024Book
2024
Enabling multilingualism or disabling multilinguals? Interrogating linguistic discrimination in Swedish preschool policy

Human Rights Education Review, with Adams Lyngbäck · Critical Child Rights Theory

Article
2024
Critical child rights theory

Chapter 1, Childism, Intersectionality and the Rights of the Child (Routledge), open access · Critical Child Rights Theory

Book chapter
2024
To study the unbearable in the everyday

Chapter 2, Childism, Intersectionality and the Rights of the Child (Routledge), open access · Critical Child Rights Theory

Book chapter
2024
Childism and ableism intersecting

Chapter 5, Childism, Intersectionality and the Rights of the Child (Routledge), open access · Critical Child Rights Theory

Book chapter
2023
Human Rights Education and Epistemic Justice

Chapter in Nordic Perspectives on Human Rights Education (Routledge) · Human Rights Education

Book chapter
2023
Childism: how discrimination against children plays out in law

The Conversation · Critical Child Rights Theory

Essay
2022
The Rights of the Child: Legal, Political and Ethical Challenges

Brill, edited with Anna Kaldal and Margareta Aspán, open access · Critical Child Rights Theory

Book
2022
Childism: On adult resistance against children's rights

The Rights of the Child (Brill) · Critical Child Rights Theory

Book chapter
2022
Introductory chapter: Contrasting perspectives on children's rights

The Rights of the Child (Brill) · Critical Child Rights Theory

Book chapter
2022
The Swedish Middle Way and UN Experiences in Domestic Politics

NORA – Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research · Women in UN Human Rights History

Article
2021
Women and the UN: A New History of Women's International Human Rights

Routledge, edited with Dan Plesch, open access · Women in UN Human Rights History

Book
2021
The moral failure of a discourse on children's rights

Educational Philosophy and Theory · Critical Child Rights Theory

Article
2021
Revisiting the past: human rights education and epistemic justice

Human Rights Education Review · Human Rights Education

Article
2019
Women and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Routledge, monograph, open access · Women in UN Human Rights History

Book
2018
In a Man's Words: the politics of female representation in the public

Academia.edu · Women in UN Human Rights History

Article
2017
A Narratable Self as Addressed by Human Rights

Policy Futures in Education · Human Rights Education

Article
2014
Human Rights Learning: The Significance of Narratives, Relationality and Uniqueness

Doctoral dissertation, Stockholm University · Human Rights Education

Doctoral thesis
2014
Re-Thinking Relations in Human Rights Education: The Politics of Narratives

Journal of Philosophy of Education · Human Rights Education

Article
The Critical Potential of Using Counter Narratives in Human Rights Education

Chapter in Critical Human Rights, Citizenship, and Democracy Education (Bloomsbury) · Human Rights Education

Book chapter
Article
Morality without Rights? The Empty Space in Cosmopolitan Education

· Human Rights Education

Article
Paideia and Cosmopolitan Education: On Subjectification, Politics and Justice

Pedagogisk filosofi · Human Rights Education

Article
The United Nations Charter of 1945 and Women's Rights

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History · Women in UN Human Rights History

Essay
Women and the UN: a new history of women's international human rights

OpenGlobalRights · Women in UN Human Rights History

Essay
On Subalternity and Representation: Female and Post Colonial Subjects Claiming Universal Human Rights in 1948

Journal of Research on Women and Gender · Women in UN Human Rights History

Article
Intersectional Dialogue: A Cosmopolitan Dialogue of Ethics

Cosmopolitan Civil Societies · Women in UN Human Rights History

Article
Reconciling Universality and Particularity through a Cosmopolitan Outlook on Human Rights

Cosmopolitan Civil Societies · Women in UN Human Rights History

Article
Counter Narratives as Political Contestation: Universality, Particularity and Uniqueness

The Equal Rights Review · Women in UN Human Rights History

Article