ABSTRACT
The role of women in the history of international law is still not accurately acknowledged. This chapter investigates how the creation on the Swedish branch of the Red Cross movement in 1864–1865 was orchestrated as a feminist project to enhance the right to education for women. The reason that the creation traditionally has been attributed to men is that the women purposely kept themselves in the background. I argue that they did so because the gender roles at that point were still largely understood from a religious point of view that strongly condemned female political action.
