Professor Patricia Owens’ 2025 book, Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men reveals how foundational roles played by women in shaping the International Relations (IR) field were erased as the discipline developed during the 20th century. Drawing on a robust base of archival source material, Owens details lives, scholarship and how female scholars who made foundational contributions to IR including Lucie Zimmern, Margery Perham, Eileen Power, Lucy Philip Mair, and Agnes Headlam-Morley whose contributions would subsequently be excluded from the history of the discipline. She argues that the creation and development of IR was a heavily gendered and racialised project that ultimately failed to realize lofty aspirations for the discipline. By exploring the minimized and unacknowledged history of women in IR and acknowledging the field’s shortcomings, Erased points to potential avenues forward for the discipline.