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...Lucrecia García Iommi Abstract In Argentina, the use of women as symbols of the nation provided a necessary anchor for debates over national identity in the aftermath of state terrorism and neoliberal reforms. Discourses of nation relied on the symbolic status of women as bearers of the nation...

...Charles Tien Abstract In this article, the question I answer is why did so many white women vote for Donald Trump? I reexamine the gender gap in voting to answer this question and to better understand the 2016 election results. The gender gap in voting and party identification is a real political...

.... The book has plenty of decommodification, but too little defamilialization. Despite continued pleas, women are still not fully visible in welfare state scholarship. Because so much of the field is built upon large- and medium-N regression analyses of variation across space and time, the volume sits heavily...

... of American history and political theory. The second part uses the civic engagement of middle- and upper-class women in 19th-century America to construct a progressive alternative to conservative narratives. It shows that women did not stay home and focus on the family during the 19th century but instead...

...Jungmin Seo Abstract This study raises the question of “who” instead of “what” regarding the problem of collective memories in East Asia. To do so, I review the vicissitudes of the memories of two events, the Nanjing Massacre and the Comfort Women, which are now firmly entrenched in popular...

...Liza Taylor Abstract This article turns to 1980s US women of color feminism to develop a notion of politico-ethical coalition politics as an alternative to contemporary articulations of activist coalition politics that obscure the high-stakes politics of coalescing across hostile race, class...

...Heather Pool; Allison Rank Abstract A comparative reading of two recent crime dramas, The Fall (TF) and The Bletchley Circle (BC), demonstrates the limits of law and potential of care to address violence against women. TF , a Nordic noir, moves beyond a gender-blind account of crime yet relies...

...Kathleen Cole Black Women in Politics: Demanding Citizenship, Challenging Power, and Seeking Justice , edited by Julia S. Jordan-Zachary and Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd , Albany , State University of New York Press , 2018 , 314 pp., $85.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-4384-7093-1...

...Shamira Gelbman The Suffragist Peace: How Women Shape the Politics of War , by Joslyn N. Barnhart and Robert F. Trager , New York, NY : Oxford University Press , 2023 , 272 pp., $29.95 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-19-762975-8 . © 2024 The Author(s) 2024 @448 BOOK REVIEWS I...

...Rosemary Nossiff Abstract Since the 1970s significant progress has been made in the area of women’s rights, yet women lag behind men economically, politically, and socially. One reason for this persistent inequality between the sexes is that traditional gender attitudes regarding women’s roles...

...Eve Hochwald © 1982 Caucus for a New Political Science 1982 Organizing News Eve Hochwald Women, Technology, and Workplace Equality in the Newspaper Industry In the past decade, litigation has been the chief strategy of women seeking equality in the workplace in the United States. Under...

... revolutionary organization. In reality, the women who filled the ranks of our organization did not have specifically designated sex roles. According to a survey Bobby Seale conducted in 1969, two-thirds of the members of the Black Panther Party were women. What I think is distinctive about gender relations...

...Birgit Sauer © 1993 Caucus for a New Political Science 1993 19 Birgit Sauer POLITICAL CULTURE AND THE PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN IN THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC AFTER THE "WENDE" "The awakening of GDR women in the fall of 1989 was encouraging. All the more painful was their relapse into old...

...Gail Omvedt © 1995 Caucus for a New Political Science 1995 43 GailOmvedt Women and Sustainable Agriculture The Great Transformations of our Time We are living in an era of major historical transformations (sociologist M.N. Srinivas called it "living in an age of revolution confronting...

...Paddy Quick © 1980 Caucus for a New Political Science 1980 Paddy Quick Why Women Work for Wages In traditional leftist theory, the economic struggle is a matter of capitalists versus wage laborers. Working-class women who are not wage laborers don't count; they are "only" housewives...

...Nandini Deo New Political Science, Volume 34, Number 1, March 2012 Book Reviews Jennifer Leigh Disney, Women's Activism and Feminist Agency in Mozambique and Nicaragua, Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2008, 283 pp. This book presents a comparative assessment of the women's movements...

...Kang Hyun-ah Abstract Because of the prevailing patriarchal ideology in Korea, studies of the Uprising in Gwangju have not attributed an active role in the resistance or even autonomous subjectivity to women who took part in the uprising. This article raises and analyzes how the Gwangju Uprising...

...Wendy Sarvasy Abstract This article brings together transnational feminism, intersectionality, and militarized occupations by recovering Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom’s (WILPF) 1920s intersectional conversation. Mary Church Terrell, Helen Curtis, Addie Hunton, Jane Addams...

.../07393148.2022.2119335 Check for updates The Counter-Majoritarian Difficulties of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health: Why Overruling Roe Will Diminish American Democracy Scott Lemieux Department of Political Science, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA ABSTRACT This essay claims that overruling Roe will mean more...

...Joseph de la Torre Dwyer Abstract For more than 150 years, feminists have debated the comparative merits of capitalism and socialism for women’s emancipation. This article explores the transition in Cuba as President Raid Castro experiments with market liberalization to shed light on that debate...