1. This article developed out of my doctoral thesis, ‘Lobbying the League: women's international organisations and the League of Nations., University of Oxford, 1992. I would like to thank Susanna Boylston for her comments and editorial advice on an earlier draft of this article. Reference is taken fromBrittainV.(n.d.) Geneva – the key to equality The Six Point GroupLondon
2. HarrisonB. Prudent Revolutionaries: portraits of British feminists between the wars Oxford University PressOxford19877
3. On activism of American feminists in Geneva seeBeckerS.International Feminism between the Wars: the National Woman's Party versus the League of Women Voters Decades of Discontent: the women's movement, 1920-1940 ScharfL.JensenJ.GreenwoodWestport1983and P. Pfeffer (1985).A whisper in the Assembly of Nations.: United States. participation in the international movement for women's rights from the League of Nations to the United Nations, Women's Studies International Forum, 8, pp. 459-471. Both articles fail to make a clear distinction between the Equal Nationality Treaty and the Equal Rights Treaty
4. HarrisonB. Prudent Revolutionaries 310EvansR. The Feminists: women's emancipation movements in Europe, America, and Australasia, 1840-1920 Croom HelmLondon1977241
5. In this article, I have used the term feminism with reference to those individuals and groups engaged in the struggle for equal rights. SeeCottN.What's in a name? The limits of social feminism; or, expanding the vocabulary of women's history Journal of American History 198976809829