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.
Review Quotes: "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!" -- Gerry Simpson, Professor of International Law, London School of Economics
"Immi Tallgren has produced one of the most creative edited volumes in the history of international law and international relations that I have seen. This is a remarkable achievement, a field-defining piece of work." --Patricia Owens, Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford"Anyone curious about the lives and work of our mothers in the law will find these individual essays interesting and illuminating." -- Susan McFadden, Solicitor and US lawyer, retired from the London-based US immigration firm Gudeon & McFadden., Law Society Gazette"Having read this important book, its 'gift' is to challenge the future me to probe deeper into the differentviews and experiences of international law as developed, lived and promoted by women other than the standard'line up' or 'exhibition'. I hope it will encourage others to do so, too." -- Kelisiana Thynne, Law & CultureAlternative"Under Tallgren's editorship, Portraits of Women is a vibrant collection of brief biographies of various figures whose contributions to international law are either posited or substantiated in ways that subsequently prompt more questions about the current scholarly contours of a field already facing destabilisation from critical inquiry. This substantive book (running 560 pages) presenting 42 women, is divided into 11 parts, imaginatively organised around the concept of a portrait gallery, and illustrated by 43 images." -- Sara L. Kimble, Comparative Legal History