Introduction : the long international history of women and diplomacy / Carolyn James and Glenda Sluga -- Women and diplomacy in Renaissance Italy / Carolyn James -- Cousins and queens : familial ties, political ambition and epistolary diplomacy in Renaissance Europe / Ellie Woodacre -- Dynastic relations on an international stage : Margaret de la Marck (1527-1599) and Arenberg family strategy during the Dutch Revolt / Mirella Marini -- Lady Anne Fanshawe, Ambassadress of England at the Court of Madrid (1664-1666) / Laura Oliván Santaliestra -- Marriage plots : royal women, marriage diplomacy, and international politics at the Spanish, French and Imperial Courts, 1665-1679 / Silvia Z. Mitchell -- "Paper negotiations" : women and diplomacy in the early eighteenth century / Corina Bastian -- Women, diplomacy and international politics, before and after the Congress of Vienna / Glenda Sluga -- The Tsar's sister as state diplomat : Maria Pavlovna between Weimar and St. Petersburg on the eve of the Congress of Vienna / Franziska Schedewie -- A ‘Goodwill Ambassador’ in the Post-Napoleonic era : Roxandra Edling-Sturdza on the European scene / Stella Ghervas -- Gendering diplomatic history : women in the British Diplomatic Service, circa 1919—1972 / Helen McCarthy -- Gender and international relations through the lens of the League of Nations (1919-1945) / Madeleine Herren -- Advocating for a feminist internationalism between the wars / Laura Beers -- A woman’s place is in the embassy : America’s first female chiefs of mission, 1933-64 / Philip Nash -- Vangie Bruce’s diplomatic salon : a mid-twentieth century portrait / Kenneth Weisbrode -- The performance of diplomacy : the residence, gender, and diplomatic wives in late twentieth-century Sweden / Nevra Biltekin.