Gender PoliticsPapers

A mixed-method study showing that Argentina’s abortion debate became politically possible through feminist organization and framing, rather than waiting for favorable opinion, secularization, or party leadership.

This comparative study examines how Islamist women in Tunisia and Egypt articulated rights and democratic participation after the Arab uprisings rather than assuming their politics from party labels alone.

Drawing on fifty-one surveys, Glas and Alexander test the assumption that religious commitment and support for women’s rights are inherently opposed across Arab Muslim publics.

A study of feminist norm-making from resistance under dictatorship to the Belém do Pará Convention, focused on the persistent gap between regional commitments and state practice.

Arora-Jonsson critiques two recurring climate narratives: women as especially vulnerable and women as naturally more virtuous environmental actors.

Drawing on community forestry in Nepal, Nightingale shows gender not as a fixed identity but as a process produced through labor, embodiment, affect, ecological practice, and power.

Cockburn places domestic, street, nationalist, military, and postwar gendered violence on a single continuum, challenging the false separation of war/peace and public/private harm.

Pessar and Mahler move migration studies away from neutral accounts of households or labor flows toward a gendered analysis of power, asking how transnational spaces shape resources, obligations, belonging, and agency.

This book review discusses 'Gender and Institutions: Welfare, Work and Citizenship' edited by Moira Gatens and Alison Mackinnon. Bryson, as a distinguished Australian feminist sociologist, draws from her deep research background in welfare states and gender policy to evaluate the book's analysis of gender dimensions in Australian institutions.

This essay is Walby's response to critiques from Phoenix, Knapp, and others, further elaborating her position that feminism needs robust theorization and universal claims. Walby argues that in the era of globalization, feminism cannot be limited to politics of location but needs to develop theoretical frameworks capable of analyzing systemic oppression across local boundaries.

This book review discusses Hilaire Barnett's 'Introduction to Feminist Jurisprudence'. Scoular, as a feminist legal scholar at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland, evaluates the book's coverage of major issues in feminist jurisprudence as a student textbook, and its analysis of how traditional jurisprudence and law remain masculine subjects despite the vast strides in formal legal equality.

Cohn's participant-observation study shows how apparently neutral technical language turns nuclear destruction into a masculinized, abstract, and emotionally insulated form of rational practice.