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"Women's International Thought" Anthology Takes 2023 Best Edited Volume Award
Posted on behalf of: School of Media, Arts and Humanities
Last updated: Monday, 3 April 2023
Katharina Rietzler’s anthology Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon (Cambridge University Press, 2022), co-edited with Patricia Owens, Kimberly Hutchings and Sarah Dunstan, has been awarded the 2023 International Studies Association Theory Section Best Edited Volume Award. It has also received an honourable mention from the International Studies Association Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section.
This award comes on the back of winning the 2022 Joseph Fletcher Prize and the 2022 International Studies Association Theory Section Best Edited Volume Award for Katharina's previous volume Women’s International Thought: A New History (Cambridge University Press, 2021), co-edited with Patricia Owens.
The International Studies Association Theory Section award recognises work that contributes to the theorisation of world politics. Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon is the first anthology of women’s international thought. It explores how women transformed the practice of international relations, from the early to middle twentieth century. Encompassing 104 selections by 92 different female 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 matters, genres, ideological and political positions, and professional contexts.
The anthology is part of the multi-award winning Leverhulme-funded Research Project Women and the History of International Thought (2018-2023) which was conceived at the University of Sussex' International Relations and History Departments before moving to the University of Oxford in 2020. Other outputs include several journal articles, an oral history archive, and an exhibition at the LSE Women’s Library (May-September 2022).
Katharina Rietzler says: 'This award is a wonderful recognition not only of the intellectual importance of recovering women’s thought but also the value of cross-disciplinary research. I am deeply grateful to my co-editors, Cambridge University Press, the awarding committee, and Sussex University, where this collaboration began and whose tradition of intellectual openness was a source of inspiration.’