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Backlash after Quotas: Moral Panic as a Soft Repression Tactic against Women Politicians Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Myriam Shiran
Advocates of gender quotas emphasize their transformative potential for women’s political participation. Yet evidence on the symbolic effects of quotas remains inconclusive, with some studies uncovering significant backlash after implementation. Although elite resistance to quotas has been posited as an explanation, the underlying mechanisms generating negative effects remain underexplored. This study
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Gendered Institutions and Where to Find Them: A Critical Realist Approach Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Michal Grahn
The gender and politics literature offers diverse views on the causes of gendered practices and the best methodologies for studying them. This article advances efforts to take stock of and systematize this diversity by grounding the feminist institutionalist perspective in critical realism. The article posits that gendered institutions are real entities with independent powers, while also emphasizing
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Marginalization by Proxy: Voter Evaluations at the Intersection of Candidate Identity and Community Ties Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Ryan Bell, Gabriel Borelli
We apply an intersectional framework to explore how connections to marginalized communities interact with candidate demographics to shape vote choice in U.S. politics. In an original experiment manipulating candidates’ race, gender, sexuality, and endorsements, we show that endorsements by organizations advocating for marginalized communities shape voter evaluations to the same, if not greater, degree
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The Gender Gap in Civil State Decorations: A Comparative Study of the Baltic States, 1994–2020 Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Philipp Köker, Nele Weiher, Anja Schollmeyer
Systems of state decorations have often been overlooked by political scientists. However, they are highly indicative of dominant social norms and power differentials. While historical research has highlighted gender disparities in award bestowals in individual countries, comparative perspectives and cross-national analyses are still missing. This article provides the most comprehensive comparative
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More Money, Less Credit? Legislator Gender and the Effectiveness of Congressional Credit Claiming Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Peter T. McLaughlin
Bringing home federal spending projects to the district is a common reelection strategy for members of the U.S. Congress, and congresswomen tend to outperform congressmen in securing district spending. However, for legislators to turn distributive benefits into higher approval and electoral rewards, constituents must recognize that public spending has taken place in their community and attribute credit
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I Can’t See You; Can You Hear Me? Gender Norms and Context During In-Person and Teleconference U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Shane A. Gleason
Female attorneys at the U.S. Supreme Court are less successful than male attorneys under some conditions because of gender norms, implicit expectations about how men and women should act. While previous work has found that women are more successful when they use more emotional language at oral arguments, gender norms are context sensitive. The COVID-19 pandemic prompted perhaps the most radical contextual
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The Gender Gap in Issue Attention and Language Use within a Legislative Setting: An Application to the Italian Parliament (1948–2020) Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Luigi Curini, Silvia Decadri, Alfio Ferrara, Stefano Montanelli, Fedra Negri, Francesco Periti
We investigate the gender gap in issue attention among members of parliament (MPs) by applying automated text analytic techniques to a novel data set on Italian parliamentary speeches over a remarkably long period (1948–2020). We detect a gendered specialization across issues that tends to disappear as women’s shares in parliamentary groups increase. We then investigate whether women’s access to previously
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Protecting Our (White) Daughters: U.S. Immigration and Benevolent Sexism Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Rachel Smilan-Goldstein
To advocate for restrictive immigration policies, conservative U.S. politicians have advanced a narrative that Latino immigrants commit violent crimes against White women. This framing of immigrant threat builds on a long history of similar anti-Black discourse and activates racialized ideas about protecting femininity. I demonstrate how the identities of purported victims of immigrant crime connect
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Gender and Political Seniority: Three Measures Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Ragnhild Muriaas, Torill Stavenes
This article offers an innovative way of understanding gender balance in parliaments. Motivated by research documenting how newcomers are disadvantaged during their first term in office, while senior members enjoy certain privileges, we want to find out how common women are among senior members of parliaments. We launch an institutional approach comprising three seniority measures to study gender gaps
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Made for Men: Political Science Departments in the United States as Gendered Institutions Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Annika Marlen Hinze
This article examines women’s perceptions of and experiences with institutional norms in political science departments and their institutions. Conceptually, it builds on feminist institutionalism. Specifically, it examines the broad institutional norms, formal and informal, that define political science departments within their larger institutions, as well as potential avenues for change. I argue that
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Black Women: Keepers of Democracy, the Democratic Process, and the Democratic Party Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Christine Slaughter, Chaya Crowder, Christina Greer
In the United States, Black women have been touted as the saving grace of the Democratic Party. Using data from the 2016 Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey, a cooperative, user-driven data set that provides a large and diverse sample of racial and ethnic groups in the United States, we develop a deeper understanding of the role of partisanship and civic duty in Black women’s support for
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Does Procedural Fairness Influence Evaluations of Government Efforts to Combat Gender-Based Violence? Evidence from Brazil Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Helen Rabello Kras
Does information about the way victims of gender-based violence (GBV) are treated by the police influence evaluations of government policies to combat gender-based violence? I theorize that because most citizens have incomplete information about such policies, information about procedural fairness should be given more weight when forming evaluations of the government’s performance in this domain. Using
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Ideology and Party Positions on Gender Issues in Spain: Evidence from a Novel Data Set Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Laura Cabeza Pérez, Sonia Alonso Sáenz de Oger, Braulio Gómez Fortes
This article introduces new quantitative fine-tuned indicators to objectively measure political parties’ preferences on gender issues. We assess the validity and reliability of these new empirical indicators by analyzing the relationship between ideology and gender positions in decentralized Spain. Using data collected by the Regional Manifestos Project, which for the first time has incorporated a
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Gender and LGBT Affinity Effects: The Case of Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Quinn M. Albaugh, Elizabeth Baisley
When a party selects an out lesbian as its leader, do women and LGBT people evaluate that leader more positively? And do they become more likely to vote for that party? We answer these questions using the case of Kathleen Wynne, premier of Ontario, Canada, from 2013 to 2018. We draw on four large-sample surveys conducted by Ipsos before and after the 2011 and 2014 Ontario elections. We compare shifts
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The Effect of Counterstereotypic Gender Strategies on Candidate Evaluations in American Elections Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Ding Wang, Jennifer L. Merolla, Arielle Manganiello
Women who ran for office in 2018 used a variety of strategies on the campaign trail, with some highlighting more masculine traits and others more feminine traits, but the latter was more common than in prior years. We ask how effective these strategies are for trait evaluations, perceptions of leadership and competence, likeability, and vote choice and how this effect varies based on respondent’s views
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The Wall between Latinas and Latinos? Gender and Immigration Enforcement Attitudes among U.S. Latina/o Voters Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Álvaro José Corral
Donald Trump’s surprising level of support among U.S. Latina/o voters in 2016 and his improved performance in the 2020 election posed a puzzle for Latina/o politics scholars given his stridently anti-immigrant agenda. Although scholars have acknowledged the political gender gap between Latinas and Latino men, few studies have outlined the theoretical basis or explored the empirical existence of gender
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Women’s Rights Close to Home? The Miami-Dade County CEDAW Ordinance as Local Practice Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Susanne Zwingel
Because of the United States’ minimal domestic engagement with human rights, several subnational initiatives, including the Cities for CEDAW campaign, have formed to infuse human rights into local policy making. Analyzing Miami-Dade County as one locale within the Cities for CEDAW network, this article asks what happens to human rights when they are turned into urban policies. Drawing on literature
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Women Get the Job Done: Differences in Constituent Communication from Female and Male Lawmakers Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Nichole M. Bauer, Ivy A. M. Cargile
This article advances and tests an original theory of a “feminine homestyle” to explain how female legislators develop relationships with constituents that both mitigate the potential for gendered biases and fulfill the communal goals that motivate women to run for political office. We use an original audit study that tests legislator responsiveness to direct email communication. We show that female
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Hostile Sexism and Abortion Attitudes in Contemporary American Public Opinion Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Anne Cizmar, Kerem Ozan Kalkan
Abortion is a divisive issue in American politics. Studies analyzing attitudes toward abortion have found that abortion attitudes are relatively stable over time compared with attitudes on other issues and that religiosity and partisanship are key factors influencing abortion attitudes. Recent research has also found a role for benevolent sexism in abortion attitudes. This article expands on the literature
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Addressing the “Hidden Curriculum” in Political Science Publishing Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Brit Anlar, Hannah Phillips
Across the academy, there is growing concern over diversity within academic institutions. According to recent research published in three top political science journals, members of historically marginalized groups remain underrepresented and marginalized in submissions, publications, and even reviewer pools (Ayoub 2022; Bell et al. 2020; Reinhardt, Windsor, and King 2022). Expectations that scholars
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Demystifying Publishing during the PhD: Navigating Challenges and Opportunities Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Daniel Höhmann
Publishing during your PhD can be both rewarding and challenging. On the one hand, writing and publishing papers can be a beneficial and particularly important aspect of your time as a PhD student. Not only does it allow you to share your work with a wider audience, but also it can help establish your reputation in your field and may lead to future opportunities such as academic positions or funding
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Submitting to Politics & Gender: Advice from the Editors Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Susan Franceschet, Mona Lena Krook, Christina Wolbrecht
For nearly 20 years, Politics & Gender has been a leading outlet for research on women, gender, and politics. As past and current editors,1 we are happy to share our advice for early career researchers interested in submitting manuscripts to the journal. We believe that as the official journal of the Women, Gender, and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, the content of Politics
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Demystifying Reviewing: The Whys and Hows Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Celeste Montoya
Peer review is a key component of academic publishing, meant to maintain the integrity of the process. Peer reviewers help editors evaluate research—assessing the quality, validity, and original contribution of manuscripts submitted for publication. At its best, peer review can also help raise the quality of published research by providing authors with constructive expert feedback that helps them further
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Responding to Reviewers: Guidelines and Advice Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Aksel Sundström
Responding to those who have read and critiqued your work, such as editors and reviewers, is a central part of academic exchange. To be able to explain and defend the choices you have made in a response letter is also a key skill that takes time to develop. It is my hope that this essay will help you reflect on the process of writing these responses and provide some useful tips toward getting published
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Expanding Publication Opportunities: Different Types of Political Science Journal Articles Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Jamil Scott
In the field of political science, scholars can contribute to the growing literature on gender and politics in multiple ways. While research articles remain important for scholars to communicate their research, they are not the only way. Scholars might consider other means to contribute to the scholarship, such as through research notes, book reviews, and review essays (a particular type of literature
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Explaining Citizen Hostility against Women Political Leaders: A Survey Experiment in the United States and Sweden Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Sandra Håkansson
We know that women politicians are harassed by constituents to a greater extent than men, but we know less about why this difference exists. This study tests potential drivers of hostility against women politicans using an original survey experiment with 7,500 respondents in the United States and Sweden. First, I test whether constituents hold more lenient attitudes toward hostility directed at women
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Beating the Odds: Women’s Leadership in International Organizations Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Maria V. Sokolova, Alisa DiCaprio, Nicole Bivens Collinson, Zyra Quirante
Despite gains at lower levels, women have made limited inroads into leadership roles in international organizations. Using a novel data set of both nominees and selected heads of 129 international organizations, we uncover several empirical patterns. Women’s representation at the highest levels remains far below parity but has been improving steadily since the 1990s. One caveat is that this improvement
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Making Women Visible: How Gender Quotas Shape Global Attitudes toward Women in Politics Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Jessica Kim, Kathleen M. Fallon
Since the 1990s, gender quotas have been celebrated for improving women’s equality. Yet their cross-national and longitudinal impact on attitudes toward female politicians and the mechanism through which this process occurs are not well understood. Using multilevel modeling on 87 nations, we examine how different types of quotas, with varied features and levels of strength, shape beliefs about women
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Telling the Tale: Black Women Politicians and Their Use of Experiential Rhetoric Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Andrene Z. Wright
Stereotypical assumptions about minority candidates serving those who identify most closely with their own identity have led to heightened scrutiny of women and Black candidates’ language. Using race-gendered language on the campaign trail can undermine a candidate’s viability, as skepticism of racial and gendered language is rooted in the belief that minority candidates may be “too narrow” in their
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Feminine Leadership Ideals and Masculine Practices: Exploring Gendered Leadership Conditions in the Swedish Parliament Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Josefina Erikson, Cecilia Josefsson
Women’s access to political leadership positions has increased greatly in recent decades, which calls for research concerning the conditions of women’s political leadership in more gender-balanced contexts. This article responds to this need by exploring the leadership ideals, evaluations, and treatment of men and women leaders in the numerically gender-equal Swedish parliament (the Riksdag). Drawing
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How African Autocracies Instrumentalize Women Leaders Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Aili Mari Tripp
Although democratic countries historically have had stronger outcomes in advancing gender equality than other regime types, many authoritarian regimes in Africa have proved rather adept at adopting women’s rights provisions, making extensive constitutional and legislative reforms, and promoting women as leaders. These outcomes are particularly evident when it comes to women’s political representation
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Window-Dressing or Window of Opportunity? Assessing the Advancement of Gender Equality in Autocracies Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Elin Bjarnegård, Daniela Donno
There is growing evidence of the international and domestic political benefits for autocrats to advance women’s rights (Bjarnegård and Zetterberg 2016; Bush and Zetterberg 2021; Donno and Kreft 2019; Tripp 2019). Research on the adoption of gender reforms in autocracies—including contributions in this Critical Perspectives section by Audrey L. Comstock and Andrea Vilán (2022) and Aili Mari Tripp (2022)—emphasizes
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All Politics Is Local: Studying Women’s Representation in Local Politics in Authoritarian Regimes Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Carolyn Barnett, Marwa Shalaby
The past decade has witnessed a significant increase in women’s presence in local politics. According to the newly published United Nations (UN) Women in Local Government data set, women constitute 36% of local deliberative bodies worldwide compared to merely 25% in national parliaments.1 Much of this increase is the result of gender quotas: the Gender Quotas Database (International IDEA 2022) shows
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Looking beyond Ratification: Autocrats’ International Engagement with Women’s Rights Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Audrey L. Comstock, Andrea Vilán
Although authoritarian regimes often repress the rights of women, many autocrats have committed to international treaties protecting women’s human rights. Scholars have typically overlooked this engagement, focusing instead on autocrats’ commitment (and violation) of treaties protecting civil, political, and physical integrity rights. Yet existing explanations for autocrats’ ratification of these treaties—such
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Public Opinion and Women’s Rights in Autocracies Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Yuree Noh
Authoritarian regimes around the world have increasingly implemented policies and reforms to strengthen women’s rights, ranging from adopting gender quotas to penalizing gender-based violence. Recent literature highlights that authoritarian leaders are at the forefront of these initiatives, often aiming to strengthen their rule rather than advance women’s rights (e.g., Bjarnegård and Zetterberg 2016;
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Why Theorizing and Measuring Shared Experience in Descriptive Representation Is “A Mess Worth Making” Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Christina Xydias
Jane Mansbridge’s (1999) “contingent ‘yes’” amplified a chorus of voices discussing the substantive and symbolic functions of historically marginalized groups’ presence in political office. In her essay, Mansbridge points to contexts of mistrust and uncrystallized interests as domains where presence enhances “adequate communication” and “innovative thinking” for these social groups (628). In this and
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Descriptive Presentation: Invoking Identity as a Claim for Descriptive Representation Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Kendall D. Funk, Magda Hinojosa
Descriptive representation is commonly understood as the proportion of women or racial minorities in an institution. While useful, this approach is limited in its ability to capture intersectional identities, less visible characteristics, and the extent to which particular characteristics are more or less central to one’s identity. Traditional approaches have raised concerns about essentialism—“the
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Reevaluating the Contingent “Yes”: Essays on “Should Blacks Represent Blacks and Women Represent Women?” Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Suzanne Dovi, Christina Wolbrecht
Underlying almost every conversation about descriptive representation are questions about whether gender does and should always matter in politics. More specifically, those conversations rest on assumptions about whether political scientists should always evaluate the performance of political actors based on their membership in historically disadvantaged groups. How one answers that question can be
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Exclusion by Design: Locating Power in Mansbridge’s Account of Descriptive Representation Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Amanda Clayton, Diana Z. O’Brien, Jennifer M. Piscopo
A much-circulated image during the Donald Trump administration showed Vice President Mike Pence and members of the Republican House Freedom Caucus discussing the removal of maternity coverage from the Affordable Care Act—with not a single woman or person of color among them. In another image, white men watched approvingly as Trump signed an executive order reinstating the global gag rule, which bans
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Descriptive Representation under Group Conflict Scenarios Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Katherine Tate
Jane Mansbridge (1999) challenges critics of descriptive representation, writing that it leads to improvements in substantive representation. Theorists, however, continue to debate the degree to which groups can be represented by single individuals in government as gains in descriptive representation fail to be transformative. The effects of descriptive representation are more complex than they are
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Moving beyond “Contingent”: Descriptive Representation by and for Indigenous Peoples Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Lara Greaves, Jennifer Curtin
When Jane Mansbridge’s (1999) article was first submitted, more than 80% of the world’s parliaments featured less than 20% women (IPU 2015). Calculating the parliamentary presence of ethnic and cultural minorities and Indigenous peoples has proved more difficult (Protsyk 2010). This is despite the adoption of two United Nations Declarations, on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic
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Sister Space: Collective Descriptive Representation and Black Women in Legislative Caucuses Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Nadia E. Brown, Christopher J. Clark, Anna Mitchell Mahoney, Michael Strawbridge
Black women in elective office in the United States have demonstrated how descriptive representative transforms democratic institutions. This transformation is most evident in previously uncrystallized interests, those new to the agenda or not yet owned by specific political groups (Mansbridge 1999), articulated in legislative communication and action. For instance, Black maternal health is an issue
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Authoritarian Gender Equality Policy Making: The Politics of Domestic Violence in Russia Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Janet Elise Johnson
This article provides an analytical framework for understanding why and how many authoritarian regimes have recently adopted reforms that address gender equality. I illustrate and hone the framework by tracing three policy-making processes on domestic violence in Russia, an important and least-likely case for such reforms. While recent scholarship finds the importance of international leverage, strategic
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“Don’t Put Color in Your Hair, Don’t Do This, Don’t Do That”: Canadian Mayors’ Mixed Gender Performance on Social Media Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Katherine V. R. Sullivan
Although mayors can have important impacts on citizens’ daily lives, local politics remains understudied, especially compared with national and regional politics. This study focuses on Canadian mayors’ digital political gender performance—or self-presentation—on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram and the context in which this gendered performance arises. Overall, results confirm that mayors’ gendered
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Feminist Protest Action in Kenya: Lessons and Directions Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Awino Okech
This essay historicizes feminist protests in Kenya over the last decade to examine the changing patterns of protest action and how they illustrate the evolution of both feminist discourses and sites within which these debates are animated. I look beyond the streets and direct action as the epitome of protest action to examine strategic litigation, hashtag activism, and national campaigns as important
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Women, Revolution, and Backlash: Igniting Feminist Mobilization in Sudan Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Liv Tønnessen, Samia Al-Nagar
Women were at the forefront of the popular uprising that overthrew Sudan’s dictator, Omar al-Bashir, in 2019 (Al-Nagar and Tønnessen 2021). In the aftermath of the uprising, different forms of feminist mobilization emerged. Based on interviews conducted in Sudan in early 2022, we argue that this feminist mobilization was sparked by the backlash facing women during and after what is popularly known
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From Yewwu Yewwi to #FreeSenegal: Class, Gender and Generational Dynamics of Radical Feminist Activism in Senegal Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Rama Salla Dieng
Feminists protesting gender-based violence and state violence have been instrumental to contesting the status quo and the shifting discourses, modes of organizing, and registers of protest in Senegal. Some 40 years after the emergence of Yewwu Yewwi, a major feminist movement, Senegalese feminists have returned to radical feminist organizing, despite increasing anti-gender backlash. In this essay,
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How Jacob Zuma Revitalized Feminism in South Africa Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Shireen Hassim
On August 6, 2016, the week of the South African public holiday Women’s Day, an extraordinary protest held the nation spellbound. Then president Jacob Zuma was announcing the results of local government elections live on national television when four young women walked out of the throng of election officials and politicians. They stood in front of the president, silent but visible on the televised
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#JusticePourMirabelle: The Resurgence of a Transnational Cameroonian Feminist Movement Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Rose Ndengue, Atsem Atsem, Maveun Maveun
For decades, African women have participated in the Black feminist struggle for women’s rights and racial, social, economic, and political justice (Collins 2017; Tamale 2020). In the 1950s, during the fight for independence across the continent, a radical and transnational feminist movement emerged with African women’s protests to “crack the norms of gender and colonial order” (Ndengue 2016) in both
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Centering Feminists and Feminism in Protests in Africa Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Rama Salla Dieng, Toni Haastrup, Alice J. Kang
In recent years, struggles for justice, peace, and democracy around the world have been articulated through protests. Whether in Iran, Nigeria, Poland, Senegal, Tunisia, or the United States, this form of political participation challenges the status quo. Rising forms of autocratic rule, democratic backsliding, and right-wing populism underscore the urgency of protesters’ demands. Often overlooked
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Choosing Women in Postwar Elections: Exposure to War Violence, Ideology, and Voters’ Gender Bias Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Josip Glaurdić, Christophe Lesschaeve
The level of women’s parliamentary representation often increases after armed conflict, but do voters in postwar societies actually prefer female electoral candidates? We answer this question by analyzing a unique data set containing information on nearly 7,000 candidates running in three elections with preferential voting in postwar Croatia. Our analysis demonstrates that voters’ gender bias is conditional
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Feminist Pedagogy: Teaching Gender Politics in Egypt Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Shereen Abouelnaga
Teaching gender politics in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is often marked by pedagogical, sociocultural, and political challenges. In the MENA context, the effects of authoritarian politics, conservative cultural understanding of gender relations, and neoliberal policies intersect in the classroom. Amid such a charged setting, applying a feminist pedagogy that subverts paradigms of power
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Perilous Pedagogy: Teaching Gender and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Nermin Allam, Marwa Shalaby, Hind Ahmed Zaki
Teaching gender politics has been an increasingly contentious topic in established democracies, with instructors encountering a myriad of pedagogical, institutional, and ideological challenges (Butler 2021; Evans 2019).1 Challenges to teaching gender politics are exacerbated in nondemocratic contexts, where academic institutions operate under close regime scrutiny and surveillance, and where patterns
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Mapping Gender and Women’s Studies in the Arab Gulf: How to Move It from the Margins? Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Huda Alsahi
Over the past few decades, the Arab Gulf has witnessed tremendous socioeconomic and structural transformation coupled with major reforms to modernize the higher education sector. These reforms have focused on establishing partnerships with foreign universities and/or hosting international branch campuses to promote diverse, liberal, and high-quality educational programs. While these far-reaching reforms
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Teaching about Gender and Politics of the MENA: Undermining Bias and Introducing a Framework Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Gamze Çavdar
As instructors, we are quite familiar with students coming to our classes loaded with preconceived notions. For instance, some believe that male instructors are better at math, while others think that markets, if left on their own, will produce wealth for everyone. Teaching about gender and politics of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region at an American college is no different. Students come
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Positionality, Critical Methodologies, and Pedagogy: Teaching Gender and Politics in Morocco Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Katja Žvan Elliott
Scholarship on critical pedagogy is mostly written from within the democratic and neoliberal North American and British contexts (Giroux 2003, 2004, 2010; McCusker 2017; Mehta 2019). Geraldine McCusker (2017, 447) eloquently sums up the aim of this scholarship as “to establish a schooling system that emancipated those oppressed and disempowered. Critical pedagogues aim to provide space for critical
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Gender and Political Representation in Times of Crisis Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Diana Z. O’Brien, Jennifer M. Piscopo
Politics is increasingly dominated by crises, from pandemics to extreme weather events. These Critical Perspectives essays analyze crises’ gendered implications by focusing on their consequences for women’s descriptive and substantive representation. Covering multiple kinds of crises, including large-scale protests, climate shocks, and war and revolution, the contributions reveal three factors shaping
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War, Revolution, and the Expansion of Women’s Political Representation Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Aili Mari Tripp
Women’s political rights and their exercise of political citizenship globally have often expanded more rapidly in times of conflict, crisis, and revolution. The decline of empires after World Wars I and II and the creation of new nations served as a catalyst for the expansion of women’s suffrage. Civil wars and revolutions have had similar outcomes in expanding women’s political citizenship. This essay
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Crisis, Gender Role Congruency, and Perceptions of Executive Leadership Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Louise K. Davidson-Schmich, Farida Jalalzai, Malliga Och
At a time of pandemics, international economic downturns, and increasing environmental threats due to climate change, countries around the world are facing numerous crises. What impact might we expect these crises to have on the already common perception that executive leadership is a masculine domain? For years, women executives’ ability to lead has been questioned (Jalalzai 2013). However, the outbreak
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Climate Shocks and Gendered Political Transformation: How Crises Alter Women’s Political Representation Politics & Gender (IF 3.165) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Rachel Brulé
In 2019, visible, “rapid onset” climate-related disasters displaced roughly 24.9 million people, with more than 143 million anticipated to be internally displaced by 2050 in Latin America, South Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa (Kaczan and Orgill-Meyer 2020). Not only can climate change induce migration, but, I argue, climate shocks—which I define as discrete, unanticipated destruction due to weather such