by Dr. Sarah C. Dunstan Rereading George Eliot’s Middlemarch recently, I was struck by the following line: ‘Young ladies don’t understand political economy, you know,’ said Mr Brook, smiling towards Mr. Casaubon. ‘I remember when we were all reading Adam…
Yearly Archives: 2019
IR’s ‘Power Couples’
By Dr. Katharina Rietzler When an upstart discipline constructs its own identity, it tends to focus on “great texts” written by scholars whose capacious minds imagined a whole new range of fundamental questions about the world and the human beings…
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A question of knowing: thinkers, thought and sources in the history of women’s international thought
By Joanna Wood Review of the workshop ‘Women and the History of International Thought’ held at as part of the Early Career Workshops at the EISA Pan-European Conference 2019, Sofia, Bulgaria When Sarah Dunstan and I first conceived of this…
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Sex, Gender and the Canon
by Professor Patricia Owens How and why are women absent from IR’s canon of so-called ‘intellectual greats’? Here I’d like to share some preliminary answers to this question, drawing on work with Kim Hutchings on canonical women international thinkers. The…
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Holding Up Three Quarters of the World
by Dr. Sarah C. Dunstan Speaking in 2005, the celebrated African American civil rights activist and politician, Horace Julian Bond, reflected “There’s a Chinese saying, ’Women hold up half the world. In the case of the civil rights movement it’s…
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Women’s Professions
by Dr. Katharina Rietzler It is easy enough to assume that few women thought deeply about international relations in the first half of the twentieth century. Analyses of women’s marginalization from diplomacy, academia and intellectual life invite the conclusion that…
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Family, the State and War
by Professor Kimberly Hutchings Conventional accounts of the history of international thought date recognition of the significance of private/ public distinctions for understanding international politics from the latter quarter of the twentieth century, for example, in books such as Jean…
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On the Heirs to Agnes Headlam-Morley
By Professor Patricia Owens We currently know very little, and certainly not based on archival work, about the history of women’s international thought inside the Anglo-American academy, the dominant locations of disciplinary IR. Academic women are only one – but…
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On the Recovery of Female Scholarly Habitus:
by Dr. Sarah C. Dunstan The 15th January this year was the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Rosa Luxemburg. A commemorative procession through the streets of Berlin to the Friedrichsfelde cemetery where she was buried attracted the attention of…
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