Women's International Thought: Towards a New Canon

Patricia Owens, Katharina Rietzler, Kimberly Hutchings, Sarah C. Dunstan

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781316518243
• eBook ISBN: 9781009003162
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political History & Theory
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Contents
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Field and Discipline: Introduction by Patricia Owens
• 2 Geopolitics and War: Introduction by Patricia Owens
• 3 Imperialism: Introduction by Sarah C. Dunstan
• 4 Anticolonialism: Introduction by Sarah C. Dunstan and Patricia Owens
• 5 International Law and International Organization: Introduction by Katharina Rietzler
• 6 Diplomacy and Foreign Policy: Introduction by Katharina Rietzler
• 7 World Peace: Introduction by Sarah C. Dunstan
• 8 World Economy: Introduction by Patricia Owens
• 9 Men, Women, and Gender: Introduction by Kimberly Hutchings
• 10 Public Opinion and Education: Introduction by Katharina Rietzler
• 11 Population, Nation, Immigration: Introduction by Sarah C. Dunstan
• 12 Technology, Progress, and Environment: Introduction by Kimberly Hutchings
• 13 Religion and Ethics: Introduction by Kimberly Hutchings
• Index