Women's International Thought: A New 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. Cover Half-title Title page Copyright information Contents List of Illustrations List of Contributors Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Toward a History of Women's International Thought Outline of the Book Part I Canonical Thinkers 1 Anna Julia Cooper on Slavery's Afterlife: Can International Thought ''Hear'' Her ''Muffled'' Voice and Ideas? Can Recovery Suffice? Navigating Absences Listening to Muffled Sounds Delineating Slavery's Afterlife Raising Doubts, (Re)reading the Archive Warnings about ''Arbitrary Preconceptions'' Conclusion 2 Revolutionary Thinking: Luxemburg's Socialist International Theory Luxemburg's Context: Life and Afterlife Luxemburg's International Theory Luxemburg on Revolutionary Practice Reflections on Luxemburg and International Thought Conclusion 3 Of Colonialism and Corpses: Simone Weil on Force ''I am tired of talking to you about myself, for it is a wretched subject'' ''The civilization we are so proud of has done everything it could to conceal the fact. . . . we cannot be guiltless of a single one of Hitler's crimes'' ''Why am I being hurt?'' ''This obligation is an unconditional one'' Conclusion 4 Ideas in Action: Eslanda Robeson's International Thought after 1945 Women's Political Engagement Practicing Colored Cosmopolitanism US Civil Rights Abroad Conclusion Part II Outsiders 5 Elizabeth Lippincott McQueen: Thinking International Peace in an Air-Minded Age Christian Science and Liberal Empire in the Middle East The Women's International Association of Aeronautics Southern California and International Relations Conclusion 6 Women of the Twenty Years' Crisis: The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the Problem of Collective Security The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom WILPF Women and the Problems of Pooled Security ''I Do Not Want Peace at Any Price'' Conclusion 7 Theorizing (with) Amy Ashwood Garvey Amy Ashwood's Praxis A Fractal Pan-Africanism Conclusion 8 ''The Dark Skin[ned] People of the Eastern World'': Mittie Maude Lena Gordon's Vision of Afro-Asian Solidarity The Deep Roots of Afro-Asia Afro-Asian Solidarity during the 1930s Conclusion 9 Elizabeth Wiskemann, Scholar-Journalist, and the Study of International Relations Cambridge to Berlin: The Making of a Journalist Secret Agent and Starting Over in Post-War Europe Teaching at Edinburgh and Sussex Contemporary Historian Part 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 The Growth of International Thought Women and Internationalist International Thought 11 Race, Gender, Empire, and War in the International Thought of Emily Greene Balch Socialism, Race, and Nationalism in Our Slavic Fellow Citizens Implications of Our Slavic Fellow Citizens for Balch's Feminist Pacifism Imperialism, the State, and Women Visions for the Realization of Humanity's Ontological Unity Occupied Haiti, Balch, and the US Empire Conclusions 12 Beyond Illusions: Imperialism, Race, and Technology in Merze Tate's International Thought Transnational Intellectual Formation Disillusionment With Power Politics An Anti-Racist Geopolitics Technologies of Imperialism Conclusion 13 A Plan for Plenty: The International Thought of Barbara Wootton A Democratic Federation for Welfare Social Justice beyond the State International ''Planning'' Conclusion 14 Collective Security for Common Men and Women: Vera Micheles Dean and US Foreign Relations Totalitarianism Security The Cold War Legacies 15 What Can We (She) Know about Sovereignty?: Krystyna Marek and the Worldedness of International Law Law's World International Law as a Specular Structure / Sovereignty as a World Picture States from the Outside Worlds at Empire's End Index