Women's International Thought: A New History

A revised version of Chapter 3: ‘Of Colonialism and Corpses: Simone Weil on Force’ is now available on Cambridge Core and will be included in all future reprints of this work.

Edited by Patricia Owens, University of Oxford, Katharina Rietzler, University of Sussex

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Cambridge University Press

Publication date:

07 January 2021

07 January 2021

ISBN:

9781108859684

9781108494694

9781108796873

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108859684

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(229 x 152 mm)

Weight & Pages:

0.67kg, 372 Pages

Dimensions:

(229 x 152 mm)

Weight & Pages:

0.54kg, 372 Pages

Subjects:: History, Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations, History of Ideas and Intellectual History

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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.

Winner, 2023 Theory Section Edited Book Prize, International Studies Association

'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

'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 Source: International Affairs

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