Book contents
- 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
7 - Theorizing (with) Amy Ashwood Garvey
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 chapter returns to the foundational questions of what it means to produce international thought. What are the markers of recognition, in terms of location and genre? Amy Ashwood Garvey was a race woman, a ‘street-strolling’ Pan-Africanist and leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. For this gifted conversationalist, public orator and rhetorician, political praxis and organizing were a way of theorizing. Although her political activism spanned the black Atlantic, it was partly due to her commitment to localized ‘women’s work’ that she understood the limits of a patriarchal Pan-Africanism. Rather than positing a unitary blackness, Garvey analyzed the intersections of race, class, sex, gender and nation in community-level struggles for self-determination. Viewed through such a lens, black patriarchy did not suppress but politicize black women. Understanding Garvey’s theorizing as fractal, accommodating struggle within struggle, resolves some of the seeming contradictions in her thought.
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- Women's International Thought: A New History , pp. 158 - 178Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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