Wayoi.Com - Since a scholarly person and instructor of international relations, J. Ann Ticner have often inquired herself the following doubts: how come are there so some woman in her study? If she teach the field as it is conventionally defined, why are there so some readings of women to assign to her pupils? Why is the substance of her discipline so away from women's existed lives? Why have women been conspicuous only by their absence in the worlds of diplomacy and military and foreign policy-making?

Ticner began to think about writing this book as an attempt to answer these questions. Having spent her childhood in London during World War II and her adolescence in New York as part of a United Nations' family, international affairs were an important part of her early life. But, as one of only three female graduate students in her year in Yale University's International Relations Program in the early 1960s, Ticner began to notice that the academic discipline that she had chosen, in part because of these formative experiences, was not one that attracted many women.

Admittedly, while she returned to grad studies in the 1970s, the count of women coming in the area had arisen: while her felt less isolated, she observed that women students and teachers of international relations were clustered in areas such as international political economy, development studies, and international political theory. She still wondered why so few women chose national and international security studies, the privileged core of the field.