Gender Innovation in Political Science

Kerryn Baker is Research Fellow in the Department of Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University. She has published in leading journals on issues of electoral reform and women’s political representation, and her book Pacific Women in Politics is forthcoming.Marian Sawer is Public Policy Fellow and Emeritus Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University. She has published 18 books ranging from gender and politics to electoral management, most recently Party Rules? Dilemmas of Party Regulation in Australia (co-edited with Anika Gauja, 2016).

“This book would be useful for students of identity politics and feminist theory to understand a specific perspective of political science, and the impacts it has had on practical applications of knowledge.” (Lindsay R. Martin, CBQ Communication Booknotes Quarterly, Vol. 51 (3-4), 2020)

• 1 Introduction: New norms, new knowledge; Kerryn Baker.- 2 How the absence of women became a democratic deficit: The role of feminist political science; Marian Sawer.- 3. The idea of gendered innovation in the social sciences; Fiona Jenkins.- 4 Inclusion and exclusion: Contributions of a feminist approach to power; S Laurel Weldon.- 5 Uncovering the gendered effects of voting systems: A few thoughts about representation of women and LGBT people; Manon Tremblay.- 6 Feminist innovations and new institutionalism; Jennifer Curtin.- 7 Gender research and the study of institutional transfer and norm transmission; Jacqui True.- 8 Gender research in international relations; J Ann Tickner.- 9 Feminist institutionalism and gender-sensitive parliaments: Relating theory and practice; Sonia Palmieri.-10 Gender research and discursive policy framing; Carol Johnson.- 11 What feminist research has contributed to social movement studies: Questions of time and belonging; Merrindahl Andrew.- 12 The thorny path to a more inclusive discipline; Monica Costa and Marian Sawer.