ARTICLE: Ignacio DE LA RASILLA, "Building Up Inclusiveness for Women in the History of International Law? (Netherlands International Law Review LXXII (2025), 1-30)

 

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Abstract:

Building and expanding on recent historiographical developments in rewriting the history of international law, this article provides a non-exhaustive ten-fold list of inclusive-oriented interventions to address the gendered formation of the dominant accounts and narratives of the history of international law. The first category comprises four critical deconstructivist interventions targeted at decentring the still hegemonically male-centred field of international legal history. The second category includes four contributionist interventions targeted at remedying the invisibility of women in the history of international law and to lay the ground for, and to encourage further research work on, the history of women in international law. The third and final category includes two further dissemination interventions targeted at further remedying the generalized lack of knowledge about the contribution of women to international law in a historical perspective. The conclusion reflects on the potential and limits of efforts at building up inclusiveness for women in the history of international law.

Read more here: DOI  10.1007/s40802-025-00276-w.