Women and Politics Research Section

Provisional Program
(April 1997)
APSA Annual Meeting
Section 31 Women and Politics Research
Atlanta 2-5th September 1999

Eileen McDonagh, Program Organizer

Theme Panels. The Women and Politics Division is sponsoring two sets of theme panels: "Gender and Leadership" and "Feminist Activism." Each set consists of three panels, and each panel within each theme will be scheduled consecutively. See below for a listing of these panels along with other panel and poster presentations. This represents the provisional program (April 1999) to be confirmed by APSA.

Co-Sponsored Panels. The Women and Politics Division is co-sponsoring a number of panels with other Divisions, including the following: Law and Courts; Foundations of Political Theory, Elections and Voting; Representation and Electoral Systems; Politics and History; and Race, Ethnicity and Politics.

Short Course/Workshop: Gender, Political Representation, and Civic Identity.
The Women and Politics Division is sponsoring a Short Course/Workshop in collaboration with the Politics and History Division. Course organizers are Eileen McDonagh (Northeastern, emcd@neu.edu), Carol Nackenoff (Swarthmore, cnacken1@swarthmore.edu), and Gretchen Ritter (Texas, Austin, ritter@mail.utexas.edu).

The Course explores the use of historical and analytical approaches for the study of the relationship between gender and the construction of political representation and civic identity. The causes and consequences of gendered political regimes and institutions will be examined from a wide range of feminist perspectives, including social movements, maternalist welfare state policies, and the incorporation of women as full citizens. The emphasis will be on the United States in the context of theories and models of American political development, but cross-national comparisons will be included where possible. All are welcome to contribute ideas and to indicate topics of interest. Please e-mail, call, or write to course organizers at your earliest convenience.

Thanks to all. On behalf of the Women and Politics Division, I wish to thank all those who submitted the many fascinating proposals for papers, panels, and posters. We have an unusually active membership, as reflected by the hundreds of submissions received. Unfortunately, the APSA allotted only eleven panels to our Division, which severely limited the number of papers that could be accepted, even when accounting for co-sponsorship with other divisions.

Let me encourage everyone not only to continue their active research programs, but also to support the research of others by attending as many of the panels sponsored by our Division as possible. The APSA panel allotmentsfor next year will be based on this year’s panel attendance, so by supporting Women and Politics presentations, you will hear first hand the full scope of research projects of our members and increase the likelihood that we will have more presenters next year.

Panel 31-1. Leadership Theme I. Leadership and Gender in Legislative Roles

This panel is one of three on the theme of "Gender and Leadership" sponsored by the Women and Politics Division.

Chair: Kim Fridkin Kahn, Arizona State

presenter 1: Janet K. Boles, Marquette, "Congresswomen, the Arts, and Representation"

presenter 2: Pia Kaiser, UCLA, "Party Incentives and Women’s Parliamentary Participation: A Comparative Study of Six OECD Countries"

presenter 3: Kira Sanbonmatsu, Ohio State, "Gender, Parties, and Representation in the American States"

presenter 4: Wendy G. Smooth, Maryland, "The Ties That Bind: African American Women State Legislators and Legislative Friendship Networks"

Discussants: Susan Carroll, Rutgers

Alana Jeydel, SUNY, Oneonta

Women and Politics Division is the primary sponsor;
Law and Courts Division is the secondary sponsor.

This panel is one of three on the theme of "Gender and Leadership" sponsored by the Women and Politics Division.

Chair: Andreas Broscheid, SUNY at Stony Brook

presenter 1. Elaine Martin, Eastern Michigan, "Gender, Race and Partisanship on the Michigan State Supreme Court: A Longitudinal Study"

presenter 2. Jilda M. Aliotta, Hartford, "Judge Jennie Loitman Barron: An Early Different Voice?"

presenter 3. Nancy E. Crowe, American Bar Foundation, "Diversity on the US Appellate Courts: How the Sexual and Racial Composition of Court Panels Affects Decision Making"

Discussants: Susan Mezey, Loyola at Chicago

Beth Reingold, Emory
 

Chair: Ruth B. Mandel, Rutgers

Discussants:

Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Annenberg School, Pennsylvania

Marie C. Wilson, President, The White House Project and

Ms. Foundation for Women

Patricia Ireland, President, NOW

Christine Sierra, New Mexico

Foundations of Political Theory Division is the primary sponsor;

Women and Politics Division is the secondary sponsor.

This panel is one of three addressing the theme "Feminist Activism"sponsored by the Women and Politics Division.

Chair: Melissa Orlie, Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

presenter 1. Karen Lee Shelby, Rutgers, "Ethics of Ambiguity or Ambiguous Ethics: Simone de Beauvoir and the Algerian War"

presenter 2. Holloway Sparks, North Carolina, "Mad Mamas and Stampeding Broodmares: Fear, Courage, and the Ethics of Anger in the U.S. Welfare Rights Movement"

presenter 3. Kim Curtis, Duke, "Rapture and Rupture: Ruminations on Enclave Politics, Political Oblivion and Theory in the Early U.S. Women’s Movement"

Discussant: Martha Ackelsberg, Smith

Roundtable: Protest Inside Institutions: A Discussion of Mary Fainsod Katzenstein’s Faithful and Fearless: Moving Feminist Protest Inside the Church and the Military

This panel is one of three addressing the theme "Feminist Activism"sponsored by the Women and Politics Division.

Chair: Amrita Basu, Amherst College

Discussants:

Mary Katzenstein, Cornell

Ira Katznelson, Columbia

Eileen McDonagh, Northeastern

Frances Fox Piven, CUNY

Jennifer Hochschild, Princeton

Panel 31-6: Theme: Feminist Activism: Panel III: Assessing Transnational Women’s Activism

This panel is one of three addressing the theme "Feminist Activism"sponsored by the Women and Politics Division.

Chair: Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, Cornell

Discussants:

Zillah Eisenstein, Ithaca College

Angela Davis (invited), Santa Cruz

Amrita Basu, Amherst

Cynthia Enloe , Clark

Kathryn Sikkink, Minnesota

Bell Hooks, CUNY

Panel 31-7. The Politics of Motherhood: Public Policy and Women’s Citizenship

Chair: Molly Shanley, Vassar

presenter 1: Ronnee Schreiber, Rutgers, "Mediated Motherhood: Antifeminist Women’s Debates over Child Care Policy"

presenter 2: Karen Zivi, Rutgers, "Good Mothers or Bad? Debating Mandatory Newborn HIV"

presenter 3: Julia Riches, Georgetown, "Some Girls are Better than Others: Civil Sanctions for Prenatal Behavior"

presenter 4: Laura R. Woliver, South Carolina, "Terrains of Reproductive Power

Discussant: Joan Tronto, Hunter College of CUNY

Panel 31-8. Government Response to Violence Against Women: Analyzing Policy Change in Emerging and Advanced Democracies

Chair: Joyce Gelb, CUNY

presenter 1: R. Amy Elman, Kalamazoo College, "Sexual Subordination and the Symbolic Nature of Government Response to Violence Against Women in Sweden"

presenter 2: Linda Stevenson, Pittsburgh, "Confronting Violence Against Women in the Mexican Democratization Process: From the Streets to the Congress"

presenter 3: S. Laurel Weldon, Pittsburgh, "Feminists, Femocrats and Institutions: A Cross-National Study of Government Response to Violence Against Women"

Discussants: Rita Mae Kelly, Texas at Dallas

Marian L. Palley, Delaware

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Panel 31-9. Women in the Electoral Process: Suffrage to the Year of the Woman

Elections and Voting Division is the primary sponsor;

Women and Politics Division is the secondary sponsor.

chair: M. Margaret Conway, Florida

presenter 1. Christina Wolbrecht, Notre Dame, and J. Kevin Corder, Western Michigan, "Gender and the Vote, 1920-1932"

presenter 2. Margaret C. Trevor, Iowa, "Gender Differences in the Nature of Party ID"

presenter 3. Gary L. Green, Tennessee, "Gender-Responsive and Lilliard Richardson, Jr., Tennessee, "and Gender-Socialized Voting in Primary Elections: 1988-1996"

presenter 4. Richard Winters, Dartmouth, and Sophia Delano, Dartmouth, "Gender, Party, Issue, Ideology, and Challenger in Explaining Electoral Handicaps for Female Gubernatorial Candidates"

Discussant: M. Margaret Conway, Florida

Panel 31-10. "Institutional and Contextual Sources of Women’s Representation"

Co-Sponsored Panel:

Women and Politics Division is primary sponsor:
Representation and Electoral Systems Division is secondary sponsor

Chair: Lorraine Bayard de Volo, Kansas

presenter 1. D.C. Moss, North Texas, and W.T. Casey, North Texas, "Are Women Losing Ground in Eastern Europe?"

presenter 2. Mala N. Htun, Harvard, "Electoral Quotas for Women in Latin America"

presenter 3. Donley T. Studlar, West Virginia, and Ian McAllister, Australian National University, "Does a Critical Mass Exist: A Comparative Analysis of Women’s Representation"

presenter 4. Richard Vengroff, Connecticut, "Electoral System Effects on Gender Representation: The Case of MMP Systems"

Discussants: Lorraine Bayard de Volo, Kansas

Richard L. Fox, Union College

Panel 31-11. Gender and American Political Development

Women and Politics Division is the primary sponsor;
Politics and History Division is the secondary sponsor

Chair: Melissa Haussman, Suffolk

presenter 1. Carol Nackenoff, Swarthmore, "American Women, Immigration, and American Political Development in the Progressive Era"

presenter 2. Eileen McDonagh, Northeastern, "Gender and Democratization: Consensus, Competition, and Contradiction Models of Development"

presenter 3. Gretchen Ritter, Texas at Austin, "Gender Labor, and Citizenship"

presenter 4. Sue Davis, Delaware, Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Marriage: Beyond the Liberal Tradition"

Discussants: Melissa Haussman, Suffolk

Brooke Ackerly, UCLA

Panel 31-12. The Political Construction of Women of Color

Race, Ethnicity and Politics Division is the primary sponsor;
Women and Politics Division is the secondary sponsor

Chair: Lois Duke Whitaker, Georgia Southern

presenter 1. Julia Jordan-Zachery, "Constructing Black Womanhood: Impact on Poverty Policy"

presenter 2. Carol Hardy-Fanta, "From Dialogue to Action: Lessons from Racism"

presenter 3. Lester Kenyatta Spence, "Strings of Life: Detroit Women and Political Participation"

presenter 4. Dolores Anderson, "Ready or Not Here WE Come: Mobilizing Black Women to Effective Political Participation"

Discussant: Christine Sierra, New Mexico

Panel 31-13. Gender and Comparative Politics: Statebuilding, Participation, and Reform

Chair: Jana Everett, Colorado at Denver

presenter 1: Kathleen Staudt, Texas at El Paso, "Political Science and Feminism: Integration or Transformation?"

presenter 2: Sue Ellen M. Charlton, Colorado State, "Business as Usual? Gender and Politics in East Asia"

presenter 3: Bessie House-Midamba, Kent State, "Gender Inequality and Gender Power in Africa"

presenter 4: Jana Everett, Colorado at Denver, "Feminisms, Politics and South Asia"

Discussant: Elisabeth Friedman, Barnard

Chair: Mary Lou Kendrigan, Lansing Community College

presenter 1. Amy Ertel, Ohio State, and Louise Steen-Sprang, Ohio State, "Hegemonic Masculinity and the Role of Women in International Relations"

presenter 2. JoAnne Myers, Marist College, "From ‘Woman Identified woman’ to Queer Theory: The Politics of Women’s Voices"

presenter 3. Claudia Dahlerus, Colorado at Boulder, "Dissident Bodies and Contentious Politics: Repertoires of Women’s Resistance"

presenter 4. David Leheny, Wisconsin at Madison, "Deregulating Sex: The Politics of Enjo Kosai in Japan"

discussants: Mary Lou Kendrigan, Lansing Community College

Ilene Feinman, California State at Monterey

1. Jonathan Welier, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Better Off Red? Women and Human Rights in Post-Soviet Russia"

2. J. P. Singh, American University, "Collective Memory and Colonialism: Opera and Its Gendered Politics"

3.Juliet A. Williams, California at Santa Barbara, "Beyond Big Government Feminism and the Problem of Limited Government"

4. Sharron Y. Herron, California State at Fresno, titleTBA

5. Bonnie G. Mani, East Carolina University, "Women in Government, Women and Change"

6. Franco Mattei, SUNY at Buffalo, and Laura R. Winsky Mattei, SUNY at Buffalo,

"The Gender Gap in the 1990s"

7. Carisa Showden, North Carolina, "Rejecting Ophelia female Subjectivity and Mutual Violence in Adolescent Dating Relationships"

8. Effie MacLachlan, CUNY, "Gender, Citizenship, and Care in the European Union"

9. Christopher Berry, Chicago, title: TBA