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1 online resource (xxxvi, 521 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women lawyers -- History -- Biography
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International law.
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International law
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Women lawyers
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Biography & non-fiction prose.
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Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Tallgren, Immi, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191905001 |
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0191905003 |
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9780192638946 |
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0192638947 |
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