Gendering the State in the Age of Globalization Women's Movements and State Feminism in Postindustrial Democracies
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Biographical note
Melissa Haussman is associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. Birgit Sauer is professor of political science at the University of Vienna.A major contribution to our understanding of the impact of the women's movement on state policy in the period since the 1990s and, in particular, on how we can systematically examine this question. Gendering the State in the Age of Globalization compares the impact of women's policy agencies and the women's movement on current major state policies in fourteen countries. Individual country chapters provide genuinely comparable data (something of enormous value but not always achieved in collections) and, from this, the editors rigorously test their hypotheses in a rich concluding chapter. A book to read and to keep.
- Caroline Andrew, University of Ottawa,
This volume is welcome because it analyzes the relationship between women's movements and public policy debates across a range of countries, sometimes in surprising ways. Some of these issues have not been examined previously in an empirical, gender-sensitive analysis.
- Donley T. Studlar, West Virginia University,