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Women’s International Thought: A New History Women’s International Thought: A New History is the first cross- disciplinaryhistoryofwomen’sinternationalthought.Bringingtogether some of the foremost historians and scholars of international relations workingtoday,thisbookrecoversandanalyzesthepath-breakingwork of eighteen leading thinkers of international politics from the early to mid-twentiethcentury.Recoveringandanalyzingthisimportantwork, theessaysofferrevisionistaccountsofIR’sintellectualanddisciplinary historyandexpandthelocations,genres,andpracticesofinternational thinking.Systematicallystructured,andfocusinginparticularonBlack 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’sandgenderstudies. patricia owens isProfessorofInternationalRelationsandFellowof Somerville College at the University of Oxford. Her previous publica- tionsincludeEconomyofForce(2015),winnerofBISA’sSusanStrange Prize,BetweenWarandPolitics(2007)andco-editorofTheGlobalization ofWorldPolitics(2020).SheisaformerfellowoftheRadcliffeInstitute forAdvancedStudyandProctorFellowatPrincetonUniversity. katharina rietzler isLecturerinAmericanHistoryattheUniver- sityofSussex.SheiscurrentlycompletingabookonAmericanphilan- thropy, International Relations and the problem of the public, 1913–1954.HerworkhasappearedinjournalssuchasModernIntellec- tualHistory,DiplomaticHistory,andtheJournalofGlobalHistory.Sheisa former Mellon Fellow in American History at the University of Cambridge. ’ Women s International Thought: A New History Edited by Patricia Owens UniversityofOxford Katharina Rietzler UniversityofSussex UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,NY10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre,New Delhi–110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108494694 DOI:10.1017/9781108859684 ©PatriciaOwensandKatharinaRietzler2021 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2021 AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Owens,Patricia,1975–editor,writerofintroduction.|Rietzler, Katharina,1978–editor,writerofintroduction. Title:Women’sinternationalthought:anewhistory/editedbyPatriciaOwens, UniversityofOxford,KatharinaRietzler,UniversityofSussex. Description:Firstedition.|NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,2021.| Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. Identifiers:LCCN2020022748(print)|LCCN2020022749(ebook)|ISBN 9781108494694(hardback)|ISBN9781108796873(paperback)|ISBN 9781108859684(epub) Subjects:LCSH:Internationalrelations–History–20thcentury|Women– Politicalactivity.|Women–Intellectuallife.|Feminism–History–20th century.|Internationalism–History–20thcentury. Classification:LCCJZ1253.2.W682021(print)|LCCJZ1253.2(ebook)| DDC327.101–dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2020022748 LCebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2020022749 ISBN978-1-108-49469-4Hardback ISBN978-1-108-79687-3Paperback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracy ofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Contents Listof Illustrations page vii Listof Contributors viii Prefaceand Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Toward aHistory of Women’s International Thought 1 patricia owens and katharina rietzler Part I. CanonicalThinkers 1. Anna Julia Cooperon Slavery’sAfterlife:CanInternational Thought “Hear” Her “Muffled” Voiceand Ideas? 29 vivian m. may 2. RevolutionaryThinking: Luxemburg’sSocialist International Theory 52 kimberly hutchings 3. Of Colonialism and Corpses: SimoneWeil on Force 72 helen m. kinsella 4. Ideas in Action:Eslanda Robeson’s International Thought after 1945 93 imaobong d. umoren Part II. Outsiders 5. Elizabeth Lippincott McQueen: Thinking International Peacein an Air-Minded Age 115 tamson pietsch v vi Contents 6. Women oftheTwentyYears’Crisis: The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and the Problem ofCollective Security 136 lucian m. ashworth 7. Theorizing (with) Amy AshwoodGarvey 158 robbie shilliam 8. “TheDark Skin[ned] People ofthe Eastern World”: Mittie Maude Lena Gordon’s Vision ofAfro-Asian Solidarity 179 keisha n. blain 9. Elizabeth Wiskemann,Scholar-Journalist, and the Study of International Relations 198 geoffrey field PartIII. Thinking in or around theAcademy 10. From F.MelianStawell toE. GreeneBalch: International and Internationalist Thinking at the Gender Margins, 1919–1947 223 glenda sluga 11. Race, Gender, Empire,and War in the International Thought ofEmily Greene Balch 244 catia c. confortini 12. Beyond Illusions: Imperialism,Race, and Technology in Merze Tate’s International Thought 266 barbara d. savage 13. A Plan for Plenty: The International Thought ofBarbara Wootton 286 or rosenboim 14. Collective Security for CommonMen and Women: VeraMicheles Dean and US Foreign Relations 306 andrew jewett 15. What Can We (She) Knowabout Sovereignty? Krystyna Marekand the Worldedness ofInternational Law 327 natasha wheatley Index 345 List of Illustrations 1.1 Anna Julia Cooper, Oberlin College classof1884. Courtesy of the Oberlin College Archives. page 34 5.1 Elizabeth McQueen (withDickthe parrot). Courtesy ofUniversity of Southern California, on behalfofthe USC Libraries Special Collections. 122 6.1 VeraBrittainat University.CourtesyofMcMaster University/VeraBrittainEstate. 142 6.2 Mary Agnes Hamilton. Publicdomain. 143 6.3 Helena Swanwick in 1909. Courtesy ofthe LSE Women’s Library. 151 9.1 Elizabeth Wiskemann duringWorld War II. Courtesy ofJulianBrigstocke. 206 10.1 F. MelianStawell. Courtesy ofNewnham College, Cambridge. 225 11.1 Emily GreeneBalch. Courtesy ofWellesley College. 259 12.1 Merze Tate. CourtesyofWesternMichigan University Archives and RegionalHistory Collections. 270 14.1 VeraMicheles Dean (portraitby Barbara Sutro). Courtesy ofthe Schlesinger Library, RadcliffeInstitute, Harvard University. 323 vii Contributors lucian m. ashworth is a Professor in the Department of Political Scienceat the Memorial University of Newfoundland keishan.blainisanAssociateProfessorofHistoryattheUniversityof Pittsburgh catia c. confortini is Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Peaceand JusticeStudies Program at Wellesley College geoffrey field is Emeritus Professor of History at Purchase College, StateUniversityofNewYork,wherehewasDorisandKarlKempner Distinguished Professor kimberly hutchings is Professor of Politics and International Rela- tions at Queen Mary University ofLondon andrew jewett is a Visiting Associate Professor of History at Boston College helen m. kinsella isanAssociateProfessorofPoliticalScienceatthe University ofMinnesota vivian m. may is Director of the Humanities Center and Professor of Women’s and GenderStudies at Syracuse University patricia owens is Professor of International Relations and Fellow of Somerville College at the University of Oxford tamson pietsch is Associate Professor and Director of the Australian Centre for Public History at the University ofTechnology Sydney katharina rietzler is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the History Department at the University of Sussex or rosenboim isaLecturer(AssistantProfessor)inModernHistoryat City University ofLondon viii
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