Women's International Thought: A New History
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- Patricia Owens, University of Oxford
- Katharina Rietzler, University of Sussex
- Date Published: January 2021
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- isbn: 9781108796873
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Women's International Thought: A New History is the first cross-disciplinary history of women's international thought. Bringing together some of the foremost historians and scholars of international relations working today, this book recovers and analyses the path-breaking work of eighteen leading thinkers of international politics from the early to mid-twentieth century. Recovering and analyzing this important work, the essays offer revisionist accounts of IR's intellectual and disciplinary history and expand the locations, genres, and practices of international thinking. Systematically structured, and focusing in particular on Black diasporic, Anglo-American, and European historical women, it does more than 'add women' to the existing intellectual and disciplinary histories from which they were erased. Instead, it raises fundamental questions about which kinds of subjects and what kind of thinking constitutes international thought, opening new vistas to scholars and students of international history and theory, intellectual history and women's and gender studies.
Read more- Recovers and analyzes the important work of Black diasporic, Anglo-American, and European historical women who are missing from existing histories of international thought
- Systematically analyses the work of eighteen leading thinkers of international politics in the early and mid-twentieth century
- Opens new vistas to scholars and students of international history and theory, intellectual history and women's and gender studies, and provides a framework for future research
Awards
- Winner, 2023 Theory Section Edited Book Prize, International Studies Association
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'A breath-taking eye-opener of a book and required reading for everyone studying international relations and the history of political thought. With cutting-edge scholarship … it reveals new horizons of internationalism, socialism, and solidarity. It unveils fierce critiques of the nation-state and imperialism, centres race and gender as topics within international thought, and reveals the ways in which the politics of race and gender have shaped the field. This book reshapes the field beautifully.' Hannah Dawson, King's College London
See more reviews'This defies all conventions, categories, and canons to bring new, nuanced histories of women, intellectualism, and internationalism into view. With essays on socialist internationalist theory, war and empire, and global black liberation, these authors show that no study of internationalism - institutional or otherwise - can be complete without rigorous examination of women theorists.' Ashley D. Farmer, University of Texas, Austin
'This points the way to a renovation of our canon in a field first named by a woman in 1929. Portending a new historiography, the results so far correct, encourage, and reprimand all those who have tried to write the history of antiracism, human rights, and peace, among so many other international causes and frameworks.' Samuel Moyn, Yale University
'By recovering the international thought and practice of a diverse group of brilliant and dedicated women scholars and activists, this essential volume rewrites the history of the field. Often working under duress and at the edges of the academy, these thinkers nonetheless shaped understandings of – and galvanized engagement with – the pressing global problems of their times. We have much to learn from their work, and from their example.' Susan Pedersen, Columbia University
'This remarkable collection upends the unspoken consensus of virtually all of those who write about the foundational thinkers and ideas about international relations: that women never mattered.' Robert Vitalis, University of Pennsylvania
'… the book challenges the traditional IR canon and demonstrates how to uncover hidden discourses.' Jan Stöckmann, International Affairs
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- Date Published: January 2021
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108796873
- length: 360 pages
- dimensions: 227 x 151 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.54kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements Patricia Owens and Katharina Rietzler
Introduction: Toward a History of Women's International Thought Patricia Owens and Katharina Rietzler
I. Canonical Thinkers:
1. Anna Julia Cooper on Slavery's Afterlife: Can International Thought 'Hear' Her 'Muffled' Voice and Ideas? Vivian M. May
2. Revolutionary Thinking: Luxemburg's Socialist International Theory Kimberley Hutchings
3. Of Colonialism and Corpses: Simone Weil on Force Helen M. Kinsella
4. Ideas in Action: Eslanda Robeson's International Thought After 1945 Imaobong Umoren
II. Outsiders:
5. Elizabeth Lippincott McQueen: Thinking International Peace in an Air-Minded Age Tamson Pietsch
6. Women of the Twenty Years' Crisis: The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the Problem of Collective Security Lucian Ashworth
7. Theorizing (with) Amy Ashwood Garvey Robbie Shilliam
8. 'The Dark Skin[ned] People of the Eastern World': Mittie Maude Lena Gordon's Vision of Afro-Asian Solidarity Keisha N. Blain
9. Elizabeth Wiskemann, Scholar-Journalist, and the Study of International Relations Geoffrey Field
III. Thinking In or Around the Academy:
10. From F. Melian Stawell to E. Greene Balch: International and Internationalist Thinking at the Gender Margins, 1919–1947 Glenda Sluga
11. Race, Gender, Empire, and War in the International Thought of Emily Greene Balch Catia Confortini
12. Beyond Illusions: Imperialism, Race and Technology in Merze Tate's International Thought Barbara Savage
13. A Plan for Plenty: The International Thought of Barbara Wootton Or Rosenboim
14. Collective Security for Common Men and Women: Vera Micheles Dean and U.S. Foreign Relations Andrew Jewett
15. What Can We (She) Know About Sovereignty? Krystyna Marek and the Worldedness of International Law Natasha Wheatley.-
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