Portraits of Women in International Law - New Names and Forgotten Faces?

This fascinating 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.

List of contents

• Foreword: Looking at Portraits


• I. OPENING THE EXHIBITION


• 1: Immi Tallgren: Re-curating the Portrait Gallery of International Law: The Objectives, Process, and Floorplan of the Exhibition


• II. THE VESTIBULE OF THE LEGENDARY ANCIENTS


• 2: Franck Latty: Christine de Pizan: The Law of Warfare as Seen by a Medieval Woman


• 3: Anne Lagerwall and Agatha Verdebout: Olympe de Gouges: Beyond the Symbol


• 4: Deborah Whitehall: The Reign of Order and the Rights of Siege According to Rosa Luxemburg


• 5: Henk Nellen: Maria van Reigersberch: Wife of Hugo Grotius


• III. FIGUREHEADS OF FIGHTING FOR PEACE


• 6: Janne E. Nijman: Bertha von Suttner: Locating International Law in Novel and Salon


• 7: Kate Grady and Gina Heathcote: 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: Christopher Gevers: Anna Julia Cooper: A Voice from the (Global) South


• 9: Sarah Riley Case: Homelands of Mary Ann Shadd


• 10: Vasuki Nesiah: Avabai Wadia: A Gentle Rebel of (Other) Nations?


• V. THE HALL OF DIVERSITY OF FEMINIST ACTIVISM IN INTERNATIONAL LAW


• 11: Frédéric Mégret: Ghénia Avril de Sainte-Croix: Abolitionism and the League of Nations


• 12: Keina Yoshida: Yayori Matsui: Challenging the Silences of International Law through Pan Asian Feminist Solidarity


• 13: Michael Addaney: Canonizing the Memory of Annie Ruth Jiagge in the Global Efforts Toward Gender Equality


• VI. THE HALL OF WOMEN FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BY INTERNATIONAL LAW: A NORDIC DREAM?


• 14: Anne Orford: Alva Myrdal: The Rise and Fall of Social Democratic Internationalism


• 15: Miriam Bak Mackenna: Ester Boserup: Women and Development on the Margins


• 16: Raimo Lintonen: Helvi Sipilä: Advocating Women's Rights at the UN


• VII. THE BREAKERS OF THE GLASS CEILING: THE 'FIRST AND ONLY' IN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS


• 17: Immi Tallgren and Antoine Buchet: Suzanne Bastid: The First of the 'Firsts'


• 18: Boyd van Dijk: Marguerite Frick-Cramer: A Life Spent Shaping the Geneva Conventions


• 19: Parvathi Menon: Vijayalakshmi Pandit: Gendering and Racing against the Postcolonial Predicament


• 20: Jan Klabbers: The Timing of Felice Morgenstern


• 21: Ana Caldeira Fouto, António Pedro Barbas Homem, and Pedro Caridade de Freitas: Paula Escarameia: Envisioning the Humane Face of International Law in the Twenty-first Century


• VIII. THE OTHER GROUP PICTURES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW


• 22: Roxana Banu: Forgotten Female Actors in Private International Law: The International Social Service


• 23: Benjamin Auberer: Female Staff in the Legal Section of the League of Nations


• 24: Bérénice K. Schramm: The 'Indigenous Women' Behind the 'Other' Beijing Declaration


• 25: Anna van der Velde: The Women's Caucus for Gender Justice: Writing Gender into International Criminal Law


• IX. THE MISSING FACES OF THE FACULTY CORRIDORS


• 26: Imogen Saunders: Sarah Wambaugh: Life at the Frontiers of International Law


• 27: Alexandra Kemmerer: Exile and Access: Lilly Melchior Roberts and the Infrastructures of International Law


• 28: Serena Forlati: Lea Meriggi: A Fighter For the Wrong Cause


• 29: Christiaan Verwer and Anna van der Velde: Isabella Diederiks-Verschoor: (A Life) Creating Spaces


• 30: Sarah MH Nouwen and Wouter Werner: Gezina van der Molen: A Journey from Universalism to Pluralism


• 31: Sara Seck: Elisabeth Mann Borgese: Ecology, Relationality, and Law of the Sea


• 32: Reut Paz: Marie Theres Fögen: The Universalization of a Rotten Deal


• 33: Marilena Papadaki: Kalliopi Koufa: First Greek Female Academic of Public International Law


• X. THE ROOF-TOP GALLERY OF DIPLOMACY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS


• 34: Shinya Murase: Thomas Baty in Japan: Seeing through the Twilight


• 35: Margaret Kuo: Zheng Yuxiu and the Diplomacy of Nationalism and Feminism


• 36: Hatsue Shinohara: Marjorie M. Whiteman: Not Flowers but a Medal


• 37: Sergey Vasiliev: Aleksandra Kollontai: 'New Woman'


• 38: Andrei Mamolea: The Role of International Law in Paulina Luisi's Activism


• 39: Luiza Le¿o Soares Pereira: 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: Outi Korhonen: "If Only They Listened to Simone Weil": From Rights to Roots


• 41: Ksenia Shestakova: Helene Halperin-Ginsburg: The Social Function of International Law


• 42: Mai Taha: Human Rights and Communist Internationalism: On Inji Aflatoun and the Surrealists


• 43: Dianne Otto: Fearless Speech: A Portrait of UN Typist Shirley Hazzard 


• Epilogue: Exit through the Gift Shop

About the author

Immi Tallgren is Adjunct Professor of International Law at the University of Helsinki and Senior KONE Research Fellow at the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights. She has previously worked at the Finnish MFA, the Legal Affairs Unit of EUROPOL, the European Space Agency, and the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg. Her research interests are primarily in international criminal law, history of international law, law and cinema, and feminist approaches to international law. Her recent publications include The Dawn of a Discipline: International Criminal Justice and its Early Exponents (with Frédéric Mégret, CUP, 2020) and Retrials: The New Histories of International Criminal Law (with Thomas Skouteris, OUP, 2019).

Summary

Current histories seem to suggest that men alone have been capable of the development of ideas, analysis, and practice of international law until the 1990s. Is this the case? Or have others been erased from the collective images of this history, including the portrait gallery of notables in international law?

Portraits of Women in International Law: New Names and Forgotten Faces? investigates the slow and late inclusion of women in the spheres of knowledge and power in international law. The forty-two textual and visual representations by a diverse team of passionate portraitists represent women and gender non-conforming people in international law from the fourteenth century onwards around the world: individuals and groups who imagined, developed, or contested international law; who earned their living in its institutions; or who, even indirectly, may have changed its course.

This rich volume calls for a critical identification of the formal and informal institutional practices, norms, and rituals of (white) masculinities, both in the past and in the research of international law today. By abandoning reductive histories, their biased frames, and tacit assumptions, this work brings previously unseen glimpses of international law and its agents, ideas, causes, behaviour, norms, and social practices into the spotlight.

Additional text

Anyone curious about the lives and work of our mothers in the law will find these individual essays interesting and illuminating.

Product details

• Authors: Immi Tallgren, Immi (Professor of International Law Tallgren
• Assisted by: Immi Tallgren (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.05.2023
• EAN: 9780198868460
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886846-0
• No. of pages: 560
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Family law; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; LAW / Legal History, LAW / International, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, International Law, LAW / Gender & the Law, Feminism & feminist theory, Public International Law, Legal History, Gender & the law, Feminism and feminist theory, Law and society, gender issues