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Walking the Gendered Tightrope

Theresa May and Nancy Pelosi as Legislative Leaders

By Melissa Haussman & Karen M. Kedrowski
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Comparative Politics, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: The CAWP Series in Gender and American Politics

Examines how women in higher office must balance feminine stereotypes with exercising their power

Policy Issues Affecting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Families

By Sean Cahill & Sarah Tobias
Subjects: Gender Studies, Reference, Political Science, Public Policy

A comprehensive account of the discrimination that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families confront and a look at how policy changes could make them more secure

The Limits to Union

Same-Sex Marriage and the Politics of Civil Rights

By Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller
Subjects: Law, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Political Science
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Offers a case study of the same-sex marriage debate in Hawaii to discuss wider questions of political import

What Women Want

Gender and Voting in Britain, Japan and the United States

By Gill Steel
Subjects: Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Gender Studies

Women vote their own minds

Liberating Economics, Second Edition

Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization

2nd Edition

By Drucilla Barker, Suzanne Bergeron, and Susan F. Feiner
Subjects: Economics, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Political Science, Sociology

Creating Gender Equality from the Ashes of Neoliberalism

Who Runs?

The Masculine Advantage in Candidate Emergence

By Meredith Conroy & Sarah Oliver
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Gender Studies
Series: The CAWP Series in Gender and American Politics

Gender, not sex, is a key factor in who runs for political office

The Paradox of Gender Equality

How American Women's Groups Gained and Lost Their Public Voice

New Edition, With a New Preface

By Kristin A. Goss
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: The CAWP Series in Gender and American Politics

A challenge to conventional notions about American women’s collective engagement in public policy-making

Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon

By Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué
Subjects: Political Science, Political History, African Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History
Series: African Perspectives

Fresh insights into gendered politics in Cameroon

Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan

By Gill Steel
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Political Science, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Gives critical attention to the issue of Japan’s low level of gender equality and the conflicting information from surveys of women reporting a high sense of well-being

Anatomy of a Civil War

Sociopolitical Impacts of the Kurdish Conflict in Turkey

By Mehmet Gurses
Subjects: Political Science, Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies, International Relations, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

Illuminates the sometimes surprising positive and negative outcomes of civil war

Gendered Vulnerability

How Women Work Harder to Stay in Office

By Jeffrey Lazarus & Amy Steigerwalt
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Political Behavior and Public Opinion
Series: Legislative Politics and Policy Making

Analysis-driven study of female candidates and how they represent their constituents better than their male colleagues

Gender, Intersections, and Institutions

Intersectional Groups Building Alliances and Gaining Voice in Germany

Edited by Louise K. Davidson-Schmich
Subjects: Political Science, Public Policy, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Sexuality Studies

A fascinating look at diversity issues and an analysis of how intersectional groups garner political attention

Flourishing Thought

Democracy in an Age of Data Hoards

By Ruth A. Miller
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

Insightful reinterpretation of data-gathering, surveillance, cloning, and reproductive tissue and their implications for democratic politics

Gender Quotas and Democratic Participation

Recruiting Candidates for Elective Offices in Germany

By Louise K. Davidson-Schmich
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, Gender Studies
Series: New Comparative Politics

A revealing analysis of the effects of gender quotas on recruitment and election for political offices.
 

Gender in Campaigns for the U.S. House of Representatives

By Barbara Burrell
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: The CAWP Series in Gender and American Politics

An in-depth study of women congressional candidates over the past two decades

The Political Consequences of Motherhood

By Jill Greenlee
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: The CAWP Series in Gender and American Politics

How and why politicians and activists appeal to motherhood to gain support

The Changing Face of Representation

The Gender of U.S. Senators and Constituent Communications

By Kim Fridkin & Patrick Kenney
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: The CAWP Series in Gender and American Politics

Gender matters in communication, media portrayals, and citizens' attitudes toward senators

The Paradox of Gender Equality

How American Women's Groups Gained and Lost Their Public Voice

1st Edition

By Kristin A. Goss
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: The CAWP Series in Gender and American Politics

A challenge to conventional notions about American women's collective engagement in public policy-making

Seven Stories of Threatening Speech

Women's Suffrage Meets Machine Code

By Ruth A. Miller
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Philosophy, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

Treating language as a type of machine code opens new avenues for the study of history and politics

Transforming Masculine Rule

Agriculture and Rural Development in the European Union

By Elisabeth M Prugl
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, European Studies

European agricultural policy has the potential to restructure gender relations

When Protest Makes Policy

How Social Movements Represent Disadvantaged Groups

By Laurel Weldon
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: The CAWP Series in Gender and American Politics

Do social movements lead to more inclusive democracy or to a more polarized, fragmented, elite-dominated polity?

Our Sisters' Promised Land

Women, Politics, and Israeli-Palestinian Coexistence

By Ayala Emmett
Subjects: Gender Studies, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Anthropology, Political Science, International Relations

A groundbreaking study of the role of women as political actors—and peacemakers—in the Middle East

A Woman's Place is in the House

Campaigning for Congress in the Feminist Era

By Barbara Burrell
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Gender Studies

Study of women candidates for U.S. House that argues women are successful in winning elections

Wealth Accumulation and Communities of Color in the United States

Current Issues

Edited by Jessica Gordon Nembhard & Ngina S. Chiteji
Subjects: African American Studies, Economics, Sociology, Political Science, Gender Studies

A unique examination of asset accumulation and the connection between wealth and well-being among different racial and ethnic communities in the United States

Market Dreams

Gender, Class, and Capitalism in the Czech Republic

By Elaine Susan Weiner
Subjects: Sociology, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, History, Russian History, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, Public Policy, Class Studies

How have women experienced the transition from socialism to market economy in Eastern Europe?

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