Politics & Gender

Thank you to everyone who attended the Politics & Gender Conference this past week in celebration of 20 years of P&G! Hosted by faculty and graduate students at @ruwomenpolitics, the conference brought together over 200 gender and politics scholars from around the world!

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 In "Are LGBTQ+ Candidates Disadvantaged in Financing Their Campaigns?" Quinn M. Albaugh, Elizabeth Baisley & Kate Burke Pellizzari explore financing gaps in 🇨🇦 federal elections to understand the LGBTQ+ underrepresentation. buff.ly/BXp5lsA

#OpenAccess from @PoliticsGenderJ - Solidarity or Coloniality in the Feminist Foreign Policy Knowledge Market? Lessons from Mexico - cup.org/4f09h6p - @daniphilipson & @_anavelasco #FirstView

#OpenAccess from @PoliticsGenderJ - Claiming Historical Responsibility? The Persistence of Coloniality in German Feminist Foreign Policy - cup.org/4f0EmH7 - @KarolineFaerber & Madita Standke-Erdmann (@KingsCollegeLon) #FirstView

#FirstView from @PoliticsGenderJ - Feminist Government but No Feminist Foreign Policy: The Curious Case of Canada - cup.org/4lZGTDI - @leclerc_katrina

#OpenAccess from @PoliticsGenderJ - The Gendered Risks of Violating Expectations and the Importance of Information for Women Candidates - cup.org/44U4EHL - Tessa Ditonto (@durham_uni), David J. Andersen (@durham_uni) & David A.M. Peterson (@IowaStateU) #FirstView

In the US in this week alone we've got a ramp up of authoritarian consolidation and cultural engineering. Everywhere from universities to sports teams I draw attention to entertainment media spaces in which those processes happen. Like cooking shows. buff.ly/5bezcnG

💡 Research reveals women politicians are judged more harshly 💡 Researchers from @durham_uni and @IowaStateU , publishing in @PoliticsGenderJ, reveal how women politicians are judged more harshly than men when they deviate from their party norms. 🔗 cup.org/4lKbEN0

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 @LiselHintz introduces the concept of "conservative gender edutainment" to highlight the role of the media in authoritarian regimes in "Cooking Shows as Gender Edutainment in Authoritarian Regimes". buff.ly/5bezcnG

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 In "The Rise of Women Vice-Presidential Candidates in Latin America" Adrián Pignataro presents and tests novel hypotheses about the strategic inclusion of women on presidential tickets. buff.ly/FHwu2Bo

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 Lousie Luxton presents a typology European women's parties through an analysis of their policy priorities over the last 30 years in "What Women’s Parties Want." buff.ly/nZddryz

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 In their Notes from the Field - "Political (In)stability and Research on Gender-Based Violence in Africa" - Enzo Lenine and @naentremsanca discuss how political context can change research methods and possibilities. buff.ly/SJdyBW1

#FirstView from @PoliticsGenderJ - Troubled Encounters: Feminist Foreign Policy and Donor-Implementer Relations in Peacebuilding - cup.org/4kQqh0e - Niklas Balbon & Younna Christiansen

In my new article in @PoliticsGenderJ, I draw on my cooking school experience to demonstrate how politics really is everywhere. This week, a MasterChef Türkiye judge tasted a dish made with what a contestant calls “red grape juice.” References to alcohol are forbidden.

📢 New #PAG21 Thematic Review 📚 @KarenKedrowski reviews four book on Nancy Pelosi's leadership from @mollyesque, @JohnALawrenceDC, @SusanPage and Ronald Peters & Cindy Rosenthal. buff.ly/WlGGBvB

📢 New #PAG21 Book Review 📚 Lena Wängnerud & Valeriya Mechkova review Handbook of Feminist Governance, a book for both scholars and practitioners, edited by @MarianSawer, @leeannbanaszak, @JacquiTrue & @johanna_kantola. buff.ly/DVb3FVJ

Politics & Gender - Volume 21 - Issue 2 - cup.org/4k7goe5 Where not #OpenAccess, the articles in this issue of @PoliticsGenderJ are free to read until the end of July 2025.

📢New #PAG21 Notes from the Field 📝 In "Pop Culture and the Evolving Politics of the Right", Minali Aggarwal & @micahanglais show how interpretive analysis of pop culture allows for a deeper understanding of gender and race in right-wing politics. buff.ly/z182Ghf

📢New #PAG21 Notes from the Field 📝 In their Notes from the Field "Writing Brave Women," Julia Zulver & @kiranstallone reflect on the process of writing their upcoming book written about and with feminist activists from around the world. #OpenAccess buff.ly/NNlXxaC

📢New #PAG21 Notes from the Field 📝 In "Gender Equality and Armed Conflict" @SigneSvallfors argues that scholars should abandon total fertility rate as an indicator of gender equality for a measure that better captures women's status in society. buff.ly/41jm39E

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 For our critical perspective on the 2024 election, Danielle Casarez Lemi asks what it means for a Black woman to lead the American empire, complicating the nature of representation across borders. buff.ly/63pr4xR