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Portraits of women in international law : new names and forgotten faces? /

This volume offers a set of biographies of women and gender non-conforming people who made a difference in international law but who, in most cases, were never well-known or have been forgotten. These portraits describe each individual's engagement with international law, the context in which t...

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Other Authors: Tallgren, Immi (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Women lawyers > History > Biography.
International law.
Avocates > Histoire > Biographies.
LAW.
International.
Legal History.
Feminism & Feminist Theory.
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
International law
Women lawyers
Biography & non-fiction prose.
Biography.
Electronic books.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Abbreviations
  • List of Contributors
  • I. Opening the Exhibition
  • 1. Re-curating the Portrait Gallery of International Law: The Objectives, Process, and Floorplan of the Exhibition
  • II. The Vestibule of the Legendary Ancients
  • 2. Christine de Pizan: The Law of Warfare as Seen by a Medieval Woman
  • 3. Olympe de Gouges: Beyond the Symbol
  • 4. The Reign of Order and the Rights of Siege According to Rosa Luxemburg
  • 5. Maria van Reigersberch: Wife of Hugo Grotius
  • III. Figureheads of Fighting for Peace
  • 6. Bertha von Suttner: Locating International Law in Novel and Salon
  • 7. Jane Addams: Positive Peace from the Everyday to the International
  • IV. The Winter Garden of Abolition and Resistance: Women Against Slavery, Racism, and Imperialism
  • 8. Anna Julia Cooper: A Voice from the (Global) South
  • 9. Homelands of Mary Ann Shadd
  • 10. Avabai Wadia: A Gentle Rebel of (Other) Nations?
  • V. The Hall of Diversity of Feminist Activism in International Law
  • 11. Ghénia Avril de Sainte-Croix: Abolitionism and the League of Nations
  • 12. Yayori Matsui: Challenging the Silences of International Law through Pan Asian Feminist Solidarity
  • 13. Canonizing the Memory of Annie Ruth Jiagge in the Global Efforts towards Gender Equality
  • VI. The Hall of Women for Social and Economic Development by International Law: A Nordic Dream?
  • 14. Alva Myrdal: The Rise and Fall of Social Democratic Internationalism
  • 15. Ester Boserup: Women and Development on the Margins
  • 16. Helvi Sipilä: Advocating Women's Rights at the UN
  • VII. The Breakers of the Glass Ceiling: The 'First and Only' in International Institutions
  • 17. Suzanne Bastid: The First of the 'Firsts'
  • 18. Marguerite Frick-Cramer: A Life Spent Shaping the Geneva Conventions
  • 19. Vijayalakshmi Pandit: Gendering and Racing against the Postcolonial Predicament
  • 20. The Timing of Felice Morgenstern
  • 21. Paula Escarameia: Envisioning the Humane Face of International Law in the Twenty-first Century
  • VIII. The Other Group Pictures in International Law
  • 22. Forgotten Female Actors in Private International Law: The International Social Service
  • 23. Female Staff in the Legal Section of the League of Nations
  • 24. The 'Indigenous Women' behind the 'Other' Beijing Declaration
  • 25. The Women's Caucus for Gender Justice: Writing Gender into International Criminal Law
  • IX. The Missing Faces of the Faculty Corridors
  • 26. Sarah Wambaugh: Life at the Frontiers of International Law
  • 27. Exile and Access: Lilly Melchior Roberts and the Infrastructures of International Law
  • 28. Lea Meriggi: A Fighter-For the Wrong Cause
  • 29. Isabella Diederiks-Verschoor: (A Life) Creating Spaces
  • 30. Gezina van der Molen: A Journey from Universalism to Pluralism