Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities
State Feminism: What Have We Learned and What is Next?
19th November 1.30pm – 3.00pm Room B04, Birkbeck Main BuildingSpeaker: Amy Mazur (BIH Visiting Fellow)
The Research Network on Gender Politics and the State spent over 15 years conducting a systematic cross-national study of the impact and influence of women’s policy agencies in 13 post industrial democracies across five different areas of government action. How do women’s policy agencies help women become represented in the affairs and policies of democratic government? do they actually make a feminist difference within state arenas? and what are the conditions for achieving representation and success? These are the major questions of the state feminism project.
Amy Mazur, co convener of RNGS, will present the approach and findings of the final multi method analysis, or capstone project, published in 2010 in the book by Dorothy McBride and Amy Mazur with the participation of Joni Lovenduski, Joyce Outshoorn, Birgit Sauer and Marila Guadagnini. The Politics of State Feminism: Innovation in Comparative Research (Temple University Press).