Portraits of Women in International Law
New Names and Forgotten Faces?
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 11 May 2023
- ISBN 9780198868460
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages560 pages
- Size 235x157x24 mm
- Weight 936 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 44 411
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Short description:
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.
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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.
What an imaginatively assembled collection of essays. Overflowing with engrossing vignettes and unexpected characters, this is international law but not as we know it. No less than a re-writing and upending of international legal history. And seriously pleasurable!
Table of Contents:
Foreword: Looking at Portraits
I. OPENING THE EXHIBITION
Re-curating the Portrait Gallery of International Law: The Objectives, Process, and Floorplan of the Exhibition
II. THE VESTIBULE OF THE LEGENDARY ANCIENTS
Christine de Pizan: The Law of Warfare as Seen by a Medieval Woman
Olympe de Gouges: Beyond the Symbol
The Reign of Order and the Rights of Siege According to Rosa Luxemburg
Maria van Reigersberch: Wife of Hugo Grotius
III. FIGUREHEADS OF FIGHTING FOR PEACE
Bertha von Suttner: Locating International Law in Novel and Salon
Jane Addams: Positive Peace from the Everyday to the International
IV. THE WINTER GARDEN OF ABOLITION AND RESISTANCE: WOMEN AGAINST SLAVERY, RACISM AND IMPERIALISM
Anna Julia Cooper: A Voice from the (Global) South
Homelands of Mary Ann Shadd
Avabai Wadia: A Gentle Rebel of (Other) Nations?
V. THE HALL OF DIVERSITY OF FEMINIST ACTIVISM IN INTERNATIONAL LAW
Ghénia Avril de Sainte-Croix: Abolitionism and the League of Nations
Yayori Matsui: Challenging the Silences of International Law through Pan Asian Feminist Solidarity
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?
Alva Myrdal: The Rise and Fall of Social Democratic Internationalism
Ester Boserup: Women and Development on the Margins
Helvi Sipilä: Advocating Women's Rights at the UN
VII. THE BREAKERS OF THE GLASS CEILING: THE 'FIRST AND ONLY' IN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
Suzanne Bastid: The First of the 'Firsts'
Marguerite Frick-Cramer: A Life Spent Shaping the Geneva Conventions
Vijayalakshmi Pandit: Gendering and Racing against the Postcolonial Predicament
The Timing of Felice Morgenstern
Paula Escarameia: Envisioning the Humane Face of International Law in the Twenty-first Century
VIII. THE OTHER GROUP PICTURES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW
Forgotten Female Actors in Private International Law: The International Social Service
Female Staff in the Legal Section of the League of Nations
The 'Indigenous Women' Behind the 'Other' Beijing Declaration
The Women's Caucus for Gender Justice: Writing Gender into International Criminal Law
IX. THE MISSING FACES OF THE FACULTY CORRIDORS
Sarah Wambaugh: Life at the Frontiers of International Law
Exile and Access: Lilly Melchior Roberts and the Infrastructures of International Law
Lea Meriggi: A Fighter For the Wrong Cause
Isabella Diederiks-Verschoor: (A Life) Creating Spaces
Gezina van der Molen: A Journey from Universalism to Pluralism
Elisabeth Mann Borgese: Ecology, Relationality, and Law of the Sea
Marie Theres Fögen: The Universalization of a Rotten Deal
Kalliopi Koufa: First Greek Female Academic of Public International Law
X. THE ROOF-TOP GALLERY OF DIPLOMACY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Thomas Baty in Japan: Seeing through the Twilight
Zheng Yuxiu and the Diplomacy of Nationalism and Feminism
Marjorie M. Whiteman: Not Flowers but a Medal
Aleksandra Kollontai: 'New Woman'
The Role of International Law in Paulina Luisi's Activism
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
"If Only They Listened to Simone Weil": From Rights to Roots
Helene Halperin-Ginsburg: The Social Function of International Law
Human Rights and Communist Internationalism: On Inji Aflatoun and the Surrealists
Fearless Speech: A Portrait of UN Typist Shirley Hazzard
Epilogue: Exit through the Gift Shop
