Women's International Thought: A New History

Patricia Owens is Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford. Her previous publications include Economy of Force (2015), winner of BISA's Susan Strange Prize, Between War and Politics (2007) and co-editor of The Globalization of World Politics (2020). She is a former fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Proctor Fellow at Princeton University. Katharina Rietzler is Lecturer in American History at the University of Sussex. She is currently completing a book on American philanthropy, International Relations and the problem of the public, 1913–1954. Her work has appeared in journals such as Modern Intellectual History, Diplomatic History and the Journal of Global History. She is a former Mellon Fellow in American History at the University of Cambridge.

'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

• 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.