Présentation de l’éditeur

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.

Immi Tallgren, Professor of International Law, University of Helsinki

Contributors:

Agatha Verdebout, Associate Professor, Université Catholique de Lille
Alexandra Kemmerer, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
Ana Caldeira Fouto, Assistant Professor, Universidade de Lisboa
Andrei Mamolea, Assistant Professor, Boston University
Anna van der Velde, Project Planner, University of Helsinki
Anne Lagerwall, Professor, Université libre de Bruxelles
Anne Orford, Professor, Melbourne University
Antoine Buchet, Chairman of the Board of Appeal, European Chemicals Agency
António Pedro Barbas Homem, Full Professor, Universidade de Lisboa
Benjamin Auberer, Global Historian, Munich University
Bérénice K. Schramm, Assistant Professor, Bahçesehir University
Boyd van Dijk, McKenzie Fellow, Melbourne University
Christiaan Verwer, Retired Civil Servant
Christopher Gevers, Lecturer, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Deborah Whitehall, Visiting Scholar, University of Melbourne
Dianne Otto, Professorial Fellow, Melbourne University
Franck Latty, Professor, Université Paris Nanterre
Frédéric Mégret, Full Professor, McGill University
Gina Heathcote, Professor, University of London
Hatsue Shinohara, Professor, Waseda University
Henk Nellen, Guest Researcher, Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands
Hilary Charlesworth, Judge, International Court of Justice
Immi Tallgren, Research Fellow, University of Helsinki
Imogen Saunders, Associate Professor, Australian National University
Jan Klabbers, Professor, University of Helsinki
Janne E. Nijman, Professor, University of Amsterdam
Karen Knop, Professor, University of Toronto
Kate Grady, Senior Lecturer, University of London
Keina Yoshida, Barrister, Doughty Street Chambers
Ksenia Shestakova, Associate Professor, Saint Petersburg University
Luiza Leao Soares Pereira, Lecturer, University of Sheffield
Mai Taha, Assistant Professor, London School of Economics
Margareth Kuo, Professor, California State University
Marilena Papadaki, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Athens
Michael Addaney, Lecturer, University of Energy and Natural Resources
Miriam Bak Mackenna, Associate Professor, Roskilde University
Outi Korhonen, Professor, University of Turku
Parvathi Menon, Researcher, University of Helsinki
Pedro Caridade de Freitas, Associate Professor, Universidade de Lisboa
Raimo Lintonen, Former Researcher, University of Helsinki
Reut Paz, Senior Researcher, Justus Liebig University of Giessen
Roxana Banu, Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London
Sara Seck, Associate Professor, Dalhousie University
Sarah Nouwen, Professor, European University Institute
Sarah Riley Case, Assistant Professor, McGill University
Serena Forlati, Professor, University of Ferrara
Sergey Vasiliev, Associate Professor, University of Amsterdam
Shinya Murase, Professor Emeritus, Sophia University
Vasuki Nesiah, Professor, New York University
Wouter Werner, Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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Foreword: Looking at Portraits, Karen Knop

I. OPENING THE EXHIBITION

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

II. THE VESTIBULE OF THE LEGENDARY ANCIENTS

2:Christine de Pizan: The Law of Warfare as Seen by a Medieval Woman, Franck Latty
3:Olympe de Gouges: Beyond the Symbol, Anne Lagerwall and Agatha Verdebout
4:The Reign of Order and the Rights of Siege According to Rosa Luxemburg, Deborah Whitehall
5:Maria van Reigersberch: Wife of Hugo Grotius, Henk Nellen

III. FIGUREHEADS OF FIGHTING FOR PEACE

6:Bertha von Suttner: Locating International Law in Novel and Salon, Janne E. Nijman
7:Jane Addams: Positive Peace from the Everyday to the International, Kate Grady and Gina Heathcote

IV. THE WINTER GARDEN OF ABOLITION AND RESISTANCE: WOMEN AGAINST SLAVERY, RACISM AND IMPERIALISM

8:Anna Julia Cooper: A Voice from the (Global) South, Christopher Gevers
9:Homelands of Mary Ann Shadd, Sarah Riley Case
10:Avabai Wadia: A Gentle Rebel of (Other) Nations?, Vasuki Nesiah

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

11:Ghénia Avril de Sainte-Croix: Abolitionism and the League of Nations, Frédéric Mégret
12:Yayori Matsui: Challenging the Silences of International Law through Pan Asian Feminist Solidarity, Keina Yoshida
13:Canonizing the Memory of Annie Ruth Jiagge in the Global Efforts Toward Gender Equality, Michael Addaney

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, Anne Orford
15:Ester Boserup: Women and Development on the Margins, Miriam Bak Mackenna
16:Helvi Sipilä: Advocating Women's Rights at the UN, Raimo Lintonen

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

17:Suzanne Bastid: The First of the 'Firsts', Immi Tallgren and Antoine Buchet
18:Marguerite Frick-Cramer: A Life Spent Shaping the Geneva Conventions, Boyd van Dijk
19:Vijayalakshmi Pandit: Gendering and Racing against the Postcolonial Predicament, Parvathi Menon
20:The Timing of Felice Morgenstern, Jan Klabbers
21:Paula Escarameia: Envisioning the Humane Face of International Law in the Twenty-first Century, Ana Caldeira Fouto, António Pedro Barbas Homem, and Pedro Caridade de Freitas

VIII. THE OTHER GROUP PICTURES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW

22:Forgotten Female Actors in Private International Law: The International Social Service, Roxana Banu
23:Female Staff in the Legal Section of the League of Nations, Benjamin Auberer
24:The 'Indigenous Women' Behind the 'Other' Beijing Declaration, Bérénice K. Schramm
25:The Women's Caucus for Gender Justice: Writing Gender into International Criminal Law, Anna van der Velde

IX. THE MISSING FACES OF THE FACULTY CORRIDORS

26:Sarah Wambaugh: Life at the Frontiers of International Law, Imogen Saunders
27:Exile and Access: Lilly Melchior Roberts and the Infrastructures of International Law, Alexandra Kemmerer
28:Lea Meriggi: A Fighter For the Wrong Cause, Serena Forlati
29:Isabella Diederiks-Verschoor: (A Life) Creating Spaces, Christiaan Verwer and Anna van der Velde
30:Gezina van der Molen: A Journey from Universalism to Pluralism, Sarah MH Nouwen and Wouter Werner
31:Elisabeth Mann Borgese: Ecology, Relationality, and Law of the Sea, Sara Seck
32:Marie Theres Fögen: The Universalization of a Rotten Deal, Reut Paz
33:Kalliopi Koufa: First Greek Female Academic of Public International Law, Marilena Papadaki

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

34:Thomas Baty in Japan: Seeing through the Twilight, Shinya Murase
35:Zheng Yuxiu and the Diplomacy of Nationalism and Feminism, Margaret Kuo
36:Marjorie M. Whiteman: Not Flowers but a Medal, Hatsue Shinohara
37:Aleksandra Kollontai: 'New Woman', Sergey Vasiliev
38:The Role of International Law in Paulina Luisi's Activism, Andrei Mamolea
39:Working from 'Rooms of Their Own': For a Realistic Portrait of Joyce Gutteridge CBE and Other Trailblazing Women, Luiza Leāo Soares Pereira

XI. PORTRAITS OF ARTISTS, JOURNALISTS AND VISIONARIES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

40:"If Only They Listened to Simone Weil": From Rights to Roots, Outi Korhonen
41:Helene Halperin-Ginsburg: The Social Function of International Law, Ksenia Shestakova
42:Human Rights and Communist Internationalism: On Inji Aflatoun and the Surrealists, Mai Taha
43:Fearless Speech: A Portrait of UN Typist Shirley Hazzard , Dianne Otto

Epilogue: Exit through the Gift Shop, Hilary Charlesworth