Women's International Thought: Towards a New Canon

This first anthology of women's international thought explores how women transformed international relations, from the early to mid-20th century.

Patricia Owens (Edited by), Katharina Rietzler (Edited by), Kimberly Hutchings (Edited by), Sarah C. Dunstan (Edited by)

9781316518243, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 5 May 2022

776 pages
23.4 x 15.5 x 4.5 cm, 1.23 kg

'Within this edited volume, readers will discover representations of generations of women and people of colour who struggled in varied ways with discrimination and exclusion. The book is a valuable and stimulating pedagogic resource on the politics of knowledge production in IR.' Molly Cochran, International Affairs

This first anthology of women's international thought explores how women transformed the practice of international relations, from the early to middle twentieth century. Revealing a major distortion in current understandings of the history and theory of international relations, this anthology offers an alternative 'archive' of international thought. By including women as international thinkers it demonstrates their centrality to early international relations discourses in and on the Anglo-American world order and how they were excluded from its history and conceptualization. Encompassing 104 selections by 92 different thinkers, including Anna Julia Cooper, Margaret Sanger, Rosa Luxemburg, Judith Shklar, Hannah Arendt, Merze Tate, Susan Strange, Lucy P. Mair and Claudia Jones, it covers the widest possible range of subject matter, genres, ideological and political positions, and professional contexts. Organized into thirteen thematic sections, each with a substantial introductory essay, the anthology provides intellectual, political and biographical context, and original arguments, showing women's significance in international thought.

Part I. Field and Discipline
Part II. Geopolitics and War
Part III. Imperialism
Part IV. Anticolonialism
Part V. International Law and Organization
Part VI. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
Part VII. World Peace
Part VIII. World Economy
Part IX. Men, Women and Gender
Part X. Public Opinion and Education
Part XI. Population, Nation and Immigration
Part XII. Technology, Progress and the Environment
Part XIII. Religion and Ethics.

Subject Areas: International organisations & institutions [LBBU], International relations [JPS], Gender studies: women [JFSJ1], History of ideas [JFCX]