Patricia Owens

John Baylis

Smith, Steve

An Introduction to International Relations

The Globalization of World Politics

How a field built on the intellectual labor and expertise of women erased them The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite white men. And yet women played a prominent role in the creation of this new cross-disciplinary field. In Erased, Patricia Owens shows that, since its beginnings in the early twentieth century, international relations relied on the intellectual labour of women and their expertise on such subjects as empire and colonial administration, anticolonial organising, non-Western powers, and international organisations. Indeed, women were among the leading international thinkers of the era, shaping the development of the field as scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals—and as heterosexual spouses and intimate same-sex partners. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, and weaving together personal, institutional, and intellectual narratives, Owens documents key moments and locations in the effort to forge international relations as a separate academic discipline in Britain. She finds that women’s ideas and influence were first marginalised and later devalued, ignored, and erased. Examining the roles played by some of the most important women thinkers in the field, including Margery Perham, Merze Tate, Eileen Power, Margaret Cleeve, Coral Bell, and Susan Strange, Owens traces the intellectual and institutional legacies of misogyny and racism. She argues that the creation of international relations was a highly gendered and racialised project that failed to understand plurality on a worldwide scale. Acknowledging this intellectual failure, and recovering the history of women in the field, points to possible sources for its renewal.

A History of International Thought Without Men

Erased

In this major new assesment of Hannah Arendt's writings on International Relations Patricia Owens provides a compelling case for Arendt's continued relevance to debates about suicide bombing; genocide; the ethics of war; civilian casualties; and the dangers of lies and hypocrisy in wartime.

International Relations and the Thought of Hannah Arendt

Between War and Politics

Steve Smith

This title provides an introduction to international relations (IR), supporting over 300,000 students taking their first steps in IR and beyond.

Steve Lamy

Introduction to Global Politics, Fourth Edition, brings together an expert team of international scholars to provide students with a current, engaging, and non-U.S. perspective on global politics.

Introduction to Global Politics

Ron Owens

The Song We Sing is a story that came within hours of never being written, had not God intervened. Canadian-born Ron had returned to North America from Switzerland, where his family had moved in his early teens, to attend Bible College in Upstate NY. Mississippi-born Patricia was attending the nearby Eastman School of Music. Ron and Patricia would suddenly find themselves being carried along by a Provident Hand in ways that neither of them could have imagined. You are the song we sing, O Lord, fresh as the morning dew. A song of resurrection life made possible by You. You are the song we sing, O Lord, You are our everything. Without You, Lord, we'd have no song, You are the sing we sing. ----- "Every once in a while, a book appears on the scene that encourages your faith and increases your understanding of God's 'greatness.' Ron and Patricia Owens have provided just such a book. This is an autobiography that will change your life." -Tom Elliff, Pastor, President Emeritus, International Mission Board, SBC "[When] thinking of the Owens, words like faith, consistency, sacrifice, obedience, competency, worship, and revival all flood my mind. In a remarkable and unique way, these words are blended together in the lives of these servants of the Lord. Colossians 3:16 well describes who they are and what they do." -David L. Olford, President, Olford Ministries International

A Memoir

The Song We Sing

Katharina Rietzler

Sarah C. Dunstan

Kimberly Hutchings

This first anthology of women's international thought explores how women transformed the practice of international relations, from the early to mid-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 one hundred and four selections by ninety-two 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. Organised into thirteen thematic sections, each with a substantial introductory essay, the anthology provides intellectual, political, biographical context, and original arguments, showing women's significance in international thought.

Women's International Thought: Towards a New Canon

Representations of Sexuality in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber

Discovering Desire

The first cross-disciplinary history of women's international thought, analysing leading international thinkers of the twentieth century.

Women's International Thought: A New History

A provocative new history of counterinsurgency with major implications for the history and theory of war, but also the history of social, political and international thought and social, political and international studies more generally. This book will interest scholars and advanced students in the humanities and social sciences.

Patricia Owens

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