Table Of ContentWomen’s International Thought: Towards
a New Canon
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 rela-
tions, this anthology offers an alternative “archive” of international
thought.Byincludingwomenasinternationalthinkersitdemonstrates
theircentralitytoearlyinternationalrelationsdiscoursesinandonthe
Anglo-American world order and how they were excluded from its
historyandconceptualization.
Encompassing 104 selections by 92 different thinkers, including
AnnaJuliaCooper,MargaretSanger,RosaLuxemburg,JudithShklar,
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.
Organizedintothirteenthematicsections,eachwithasubstantialintro-
ductory essay, the anthology provides intellectual, political, and bio-
graphical context, and original arguments, showing women’s
significanceininternationalthought.
patricia owens is Professor of International Relations at the
University of Oxford. Her previous publications include Economy of
Force(2015), winner of BISA’sSusan Strange Prize, BetweenWar and
Politics (2007), and, as co-editor, The Globalization of World Politics
(2020). She is a former fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced
StudyandProctorFellowatPrincetonUniversity.
katharina rietzler isSeniorLecturerinAmericanHistoryatthe
UniversityofSussex.SheiscurrentlycompletingabookonAmerican
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
UniversityofCambridge.
kimberly hutchings is Professor of Politics and International
Relations at Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of
worksincludingKant,CritiqueandPolitics(1996),InternationalPolitical
Theory (1999), Hegel and Feminist Philosophy (2003), Time and World
Politics: Thinking the Present (2008), and Global Ethics: An Introduction
(2ndedition,2018)andco-authorofViolenceandPoliticalTheory(2020)
withElizabethFrazer.
sarah c. dunstan is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and
Lecturer in the International History of Global Human Rights at the
University of Glasgow. She is the author of Race, Rights and Reform
(2021). Her work has also appeared in journals such as the Journal of
Modern History, the Journal of the History of Ideas, the Journal of
ContemporaryHistory,andGender&History.
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Women s International
Thought: Towards a
New Canon
Edited by
Patricia Owens
UniversityofOxford
Katharina Rietzler
UniversityofSussex
Kimberly Hutchings
QueenMaryUniversityofLondon
Sarah C. Dunstan
UniversityofGlasgow
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Contents
Prefaceand Acknowledgments page xiii
Introductionby Patricia Owens, Sarah C. Dunstan,
Kimberly Hutchings, and KatharinaRietzler 1
1. Field and Discipline
Introductionby Patricia Owens 23
Jessie W. Hughan 37
From“ACourseinInternationalRelations”(co-authored
withNicholasKelley)(1915)
Committee on the Bureau ofInternational Research
in Harvard University and RadcliffeCollege
(n.d. c.1923) 39
From“ProposalforaFoundationforInstructioninInternational
Affairs”and“FoundationforInstructioninInternationalAffairs”
F.Melian Stawell 41
FromTheGrowthofInternationalThought(1929)
Lucy Philip Mair 46
From“InternationalRelationsasanIndependentSubject”(1934)
Merze Tate 49
From“TeachingofInternationalRelationsin
NegroColleges”(1947)
Agnes Headlam-Morley 55
From“IdealismandRealisminInternationalRelations,”
anInauguralLecture(1949)
Annette BakerFox 65
From“TheTeachingofInternationalRelationsinthe
UnitedStates”(co-authoredwithWilliamT.R.Fox)(1961)
Rachel Wall 69
From“TheNatureofContemporaryHistory”(1966)
v
vi Contents
2. Geopolitics and War
Introduction by Patricia Owens 75
Ellen ChurchillSemple 87
FromInfluencesofGeographicEnvironmentontheBasisofRatzel’s
SystemofAnthropo-Geography(1911)
Sylvia Pankhurst 92
From“TheFascistWorldWar(EthiopiaandSpain)”(1935)
Elizabeth Monroe 94
FromTheMediterraneaninPolitics(1938)
Margaret Sprout 97
FromTowardaNewOrderofSeaPower(co-authoredwithHarold
Sprout)(1940)
Claudia Jones 105
From“WhatWeMustNowDoaboutIndia”(1942)
Hannah Arendt 110
From“TheQuestionofWar”(1958–1959)
Roberta Wohlstetter 117
FromPearlHarbor:WarningandDecision(1960)
Mary McCarthy 121
FromVietnam(1967)
3. Imperialism
Introduction by SarahC. Dunstan 127
Jessie Fauset 143
From“ImpressionsoftheSecondPan-AfricanCongress”(1921)
LillianM. Penson 152
From“TheLondonWestIndiaInterestintheEighteenth
Century”(1921)
Anna Julia Cooper 157
FromSlaveryandtheFrenchandHaitianRevolutions(1925)
Lilian Knowles 161
FromEconomicDevelopmentintheNineteenthCentury(1932)
MargeryPerham 167
FromNativeAdministrationinNigeria(1937)
Sibyl Crowe 172
FromTheBerlinWestAfricanConference,1884–1885(1942)
Contents vii
Amy Jacques Garvey 177
From“ChineseMilkAfricansintheCaribbean”(1946)
Mary Macdonald Proudfoot 181
FromBritainandtheUnitedStatesintheCaribbean(1954)
4. Anticolonialism
Introductionby Sarah C. Dunstan and Patricia Owens 187
Jane Nardal 201
From“Internationalismenoir”(1928)
Dorothy Macardle 204
TheIrishRepublic(1937)
Una Marson 211
From“ToJoeandBen”(1937)
Nancy Cunard 214
FromWhiteMan’sDuty(1942)
Simone Weil 220
From“TheColonialQuestionandtheDestinyoftheFrench
People”(1943)
SuzanneRoussy Césaire 224
From“Legrandcamouflage”(1945)
Eslanda Robeson 230
FromAfricanJourney(1946)
Claudia Jones 232
From“TheCaribbeanCommunityinBritain”(1964)
5. InternationalLawandInternational Organization
Introductionby KatharinaRietzler 245
Mary Parker Follett 257
FromTheNewState(1919)
Sarah Wambaugh 261
FromAMonographonPlebiscites(1920)
Lucie A. Zimmern 268
FromMusttheLeagueFail?(1932)
Barbara Wootton 275
From“SocialismandFederation”(1941)
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Krystyna Marek 278
FromTheIdentityandContinuityofStatesinPublicInternational
Law(1954)
M. Margaret Ball 282
FromInternationalRelations(co-writtenwithHughB.Killough)(1956)
Pauli Murray 291
FromTheConstitutionandGovernmentofGhana
(co-writtenwithLeslieRubin)(1961)
Louise W. Holborn 298
FromRefugees:AProblemofOurTime(1975)
6. DiplomacyandForeign Policy
Introduction by KatharinaRietzler 305
Margaret Lambert 317
FromTheSaar(1934)
Merze Tate 323
From“TheWarAimsofWorldWarIandWorldWarIIandTheir
RelationtotheDarkerPeoplesoftheWorld”(1943)
Elizabeth Wiskemann 328
FromTheRome–BerlinAxis(1949)
Vera Micheles Dean 334
FromForeignPolicywithoutFear(1953)
Adda B.Bozeman 337
From“India’sForeignPolicyToday”(1958)
Judith Shklar 345
From“Decisionism”(1964)
CoralBell 351
FromTheDebatableAlliance:AnEssayinAnglo-American
Relations(1964)
Agatha Ramm 356
FromGermany1789–1919:APoliticalHistory(1967)
7. World Peace
Introduction by SarahC. Dunstan 359
Berthavon Suttner 373
From“UniversalPeace–FromaWoman’sStandpoint”(1899)
Contents ix
Emily GreeneBalch 379
From“TheTimeforMakingPeace”(1915)
Helena Swanwick 384
From“WomenandWar”(1915)
Mary Church Terrell 392
From“SpeechandResolutionPresentedatInternationalWomen’s
Congress,Zurich”(1919)
Jane Addams 394
FromPeaceandBreadinTimeofWar(1922)
Vera Brittain 396
From“PeaceandthePublicMind”(1935)
Helene Stöcker 402
From“ReviewofTheTwentyYears’Crisis,1919–1939byE.H.
Carr”(1940)
Edith Sampson 406
From“AddressbytheHon.Mrs.EdithSampson”(1952)
8. World Economy
Introductionby Patricia Owens 411
Rosa Luxemburg 425
FromTheAccumulationofCapital(1913)
Persia Campbell 430
FromChineseCoolieEmigrationtoCountrieswithintheBritish
Empire(1923)
Lilian M. Friedländer 436
From“LabourProblemsinTwoWorlds”(1929)
Eleanor Lansing Dulles 443
FromTheBankforInternationalSettlementsatWork(1932)
Ursula K. Hicks 447
From“LearningaboutEconomicDevelopment”(1957)
Sudha R. Shenoy 452
From“TheComingSerfdominIndia”(1966)
Edith Penrose 456
FromTheLargeInternationalFirminDevelopingCountries(1968)
Susan Strange 462
FromSterlingandBritishPolicy(1971)
