Portraits of women in international law : new names and forgotten faces? / edited by Immi Tallgren.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tallgren, Immi, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women lawyers--History--Biography.

Women lawyers.

International law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (557 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

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 they worked, and the barriers they faced.

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

31. Elisabeth Mann Borgese: Ecology, Relationality, and Law of the Sea

32. Marie Theres Fögen: The Universalization of a Rotten Deal

33. Kalliopi Koufa: First Greek Female Academic of Public International Law

X. The Roof-Top Gallery of Diplomacy and International Relations

34. Thomas Baty in Japan: Seeing through the Twilight

35. Zheng Yuxiu and the Diplomacy of Nationalism and Feminism

36. Marjorie M Whiteman: Not Flowers but a Medal

37. Aleksandra Kollontai: 'New Woman'

38. The Role of International Law in Paulina Luisi's Activism

39. Working from 'Rooms of Their Own': For a Realistic Portrait of Joyce Gutteridge CBE and Other Trailblazing Women

XI. Portraits of Artists, Journalists, and Visionaries of International Law

40. 'If only they listened to Simone Weil': From Rights to Roots.

41. Helene Halperin-Ginsburg: The Social Function of International Law

42. Human Rights and Communist Internationalism: On Inji Aflatoun and the Surrealists

43. Fearless Speech: A Portrait of UN Typist Shirley Hazzard

Epilogue: Exit through the Gift Shop

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 19, 2023).

ISBN:

0-19-190500-3

0-19-263893-9

0-19-263894-7

OCLC:

1376931632