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- Women’s International Thought: A New History
- Women’s International Thought: A New History
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Toward a History of Women’s International Thought
- Part I Canonical Thinkers
- Part II Outsiders
- 5 Elizabeth Lippincott McQueen: Thinking International Peace in an Air-Minded Age
- 6 Women of the Twenty Years’ Crisis: The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and the Problem of Collective Security
- 7 Theorizing (with) Amy Ashwood Garvey
- 8 “The Dark Skin[ned] People of the Eastern World”: Mittie Maude Lena Gordon’s Vision of Afro-Asian Solidarity
- 9 Elizabeth Wiskemann, Scholar-Journalist, and the Study of International Relations
- Part III Thinking in or around the Academy
- Index
5 - Elizabeth Lippincott McQueen: Thinking International Peace in an Air-Minded Age
from Part II - Outsiders
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 January 2021
- Women’s International Thought: A New History
- Women’s International Thought: A New History
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Toward a History of Women’s International Thought
- Part I Canonical Thinkers
- Part II Outsiders
- 5 Elizabeth Lippincott McQueen: Thinking International Peace in an Air-Minded Age
- 6 Women of the Twenty Years’ Crisis: The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and the Problem of Collective Security
- 7 Theorizing (with) Amy Ashwood Garvey
- 8 “The Dark Skin[ned] People of the Eastern World”: Mittie Maude Lena Gordon’s Vision of Afro-Asian Solidarity
- 9 Elizabeth Wiskemann, Scholar-Journalist, and the Study of International Relations
- Part III Thinking in or around the Academy
- Index
Summary
This essay on Elizabeth Lippincott McQueen analyses the ways in which gender intersected with international thought-as-spirituality. McQueen can hardly be regarded as a conventional intellectual: she was a charismatic entrepreneur thriving on a localized form of techno-optimist internationalism in 1930s Southern California. Her religious formation as a Christian Scientist inclined her to understand and experience the act of thinking as a practice that could change the world. McQueen’s conversion-like encounter with aviation prompted her to transfer a spiritual model to a political project - the promotion of world peace and Anglo-American liberal empire. She strategically drew on gendered notions of sociability and spirituality, and developed her gospel of aviation during a time when women were integral to the rise of a new technology. Once commercial aviation was securely established in the United States, women were relegated to service tasks, in a move that eerily resembles the formation of IR as a discipline.
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- Women's International Thought: A New History , pp. 115 - 135Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021