Patricia Owens

The cover of the book

A special issue that I edited on "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (2025) by Patricia Owens has gone to production – I look forward to seeing the collection published @global-ih.bsky.social! It includes five review articles and a reply article by @whitproject.bsky.social

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Thank you, Elspeth. I love Anna Funder's outstanding book. I'm done with all veneration of serial sex-pest and eraser of women "George Orwell"

This week on the podcast, @whitproject.bsky.social, Professor of International Relations at Oxford, tells us about the women of her new book, Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men.
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Transcript: www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/u...

Edina Paleviq's MUST READ: Patrica Owen's Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men. It debunks the familiar portrayal of male thinkers in IR as only a partial story reflecting a structural distortion in how the discipline remembers its past.

globaleuropejournal.org/2025/10/octo...

Watch his victory speech for how it gives zero time to the nonsense binary of "idpol" vs "class politics". The stars of that speech are the *multi-ethnic* working class. It's a speech grounded in the rich complexity of material reality, not two dimensional caricatures and facile abstractions.

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Thank you! She did, and brilliantly. I'm so grateful....

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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

"They also raise concerns about the depth of analyses and increased specialization at the expense of broader synthesis".

Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men Patricia Owens provides a deeply researched and engrossing feminist history of international relations as a discipline in the United Kingdom in the twentieth century.

John Ikenberry reviews Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men.
www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/eras...

A black and white photo of a woman (Merze Tate) on a bike outside the Radcliffe Camera on Oxford

1/8 An overview of a recent print issue, a forum on "Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon" (@universitypress.cambridge.org, 2022) eds. @whitproject.bsky.social, Katharina Rietzler, Kimberley Hutchings, & @sarahcdunstan.bsky.social - the forum was guest ed by @rosariolopez.bsky.social

Looks outstanding - see the thread for more on the forum entries.

Congratulations, Charlotte. It's a great book (I am half-way through). 🥂

"many academics from prestigious universities".

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The erasure of women philosophers Eileen O’Neill’s foundational article “Disappearing Ink: Early modern women philosophers and their fate in history” (1998) was revelatory for me as a

Another excellent piece by Geertje Bol @whpt.bsky.social 👇 www.the-tls.com/philosophy/c...

🔊 Episode #3 out now!
@whitproject.bsky.social (@politicsoxford.bsky.social) explores how the gender binary shaped the production and reception of international thought and what recovering overlooked voices means for present-day international relations.
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'Oxford’s chief diversity officer has said that universities must not forget their legal obligations relating to equality, diversity and inclusion if there are changes to the research culture element of the 2029 Research Excellence Framework.'

Yes. More people need to say this repeatedly out loud.

Re-upping the link to an online book talk tomorrow at 3pm hosted by SPIN.👇 Please email secrecyresearch@gmail.com for an invite link.

She would warn that, as in ancient Rome and interwar Europe, economic elites mistook material abundance for stability, blind to the fact that their own complacency hastened the collapse they thought could not touch them".

Thanks to DC historian @rcturk.bsky.social for letting me know it was out!

is hollowing out the very institutions meant to safeguard democratic government and diplomatic norms (as fragile and compromised as they always were).

"If we extended Eileen Power’s critique of pre–World War II Europe to the contemporary scene in D.C., she might view Washington’s diplomatic world as a decadent spectacle. Lavish receptions and constant talk obscure how authoritarian rollback under Trump...

I'm told "Washington Life" is DC's premiere lifestyle magazine. They did a feature on Erased in their "Diplomatic Issue". Surprising, but okay...

They edited out some stuff from the original Q&A...

Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...